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cinematographer

chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film
Class type of: camera operator, artist, filmmaker Q222344

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
filmmaking occupation, title of authority, occupation[5][6]
Subclass of
camera operator, artist, filmmaker
Different from
film director, cinematograph, camera operator, filmmaker[9][10][11][12]
EntitySchema for this class
E28
Female form of label
directrice de la photographie, directora de fotografía, Kamerafrau, kameramanka, κινηματογραφίστρια, kameraistino, مصورة سينمائية, צלמת קולנוע, Kamerafra, directora de fotografia, direutora de fotografía, операторка-постановниця, апэратарка-пастаноўшчыца, direttrice della fotografia, diretora de fotografia, jibioskopografan, direktorica fotografije, kinematografininkė, operatorka filmowa[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
Field of this occupation
film photography[7]
ISCO-08 occupation class
2654[35]
Main Wikidata property
P344[8]
Male form of label
Kameramann, Kameramann, director de fotografía, direttore della fotografia, hibioskopografan, direktor fotografije, directeur de la photographie, kinematografininkas, оператор-постановник[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
🏷️ Also known as
en director of photography en cinematographer en DP en DoP ar مدير التصوير ar مصور سينمائي cs kameraman cs kamera da kameramand da filmfotograf de Bildgestalter de Kameraperson de Kameramann de Bildgestalterin de Kamerafrau el κινηματογραφιστής el διευθυντής φωτογραφίας en-gb director of photography en-gb DOP es cinematógrafa
🔖 Identifiers · 28
GND ID
4029412-2, 4493238-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
13-06-07 RaR Fujinon film camera.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300025650
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/3746
BNCF Thesaurus ID
79762
Dewey Decimal Classification
777.092
ESCO Occupation ID
6ba25e0f-7fb8-4879-a1f9-d4f8945966be
FactGrid item ID
TCW
Freebase ID
/m/0dgd_
Harper's tag
cinematographers
IDEO Job ID
10181
IMDb keyword
cinematographer
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KldB-2010 occupation code
94523
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
relators/cng
Lex ID
filmfotograf
Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID
dg2024060077
Museum-digital tag ID
22794
NL CR AUT ID
ph121408, ph1202410
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007286441005171
Quora topic ID
Cinematographers
RKD thesaurus ID
39879
ROME Occupation Code
14273
SVKKL authority ID
h0009034-kameramani
Topic's main category
Category:Cinematographers
Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
direttore-della-fotografia
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09908991-n
YSO ID
7019
Yale LUX ID
concept/bcfe899b-7a78-4351-9566-7a1dfebed58c

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🔗 Connections
← Occupation 2038
Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Satyajit Ray, Samuel Beckett, George Lucas, Jean Cocteau +2030 more
← Category combines topics 11
Category:Australian cinematographers, Category:Austrian cinematographers, Category:Azerbaijani cinematographers, Category:Japanese cinematographers, Category:Brazilian cinematographers, Category:Israeli cinematographers, Category:Estonian cinematographers, Category:Croatian cinematographers +3 more
Different from 4
film director, camera operator, cinematograph, filmmaker
← Different from 4
film director, camera operator, cinematograph, filmmaker
Subclass of 3
artist, camera operator, filmmaker
← Members have occupation 3
American Society of Cinematographers, British Society of Cinematographers, French Society of Cinematographers
Instance of 1
occupation
Topic's main category 1
Category:Cinematographers
← Category contains 1
Category:Best Cinematography César Award winners
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Cinematographers
← Field of work 1
Zygmunt Samosiuk
← Main subject 1
The Cameraman
← Practiced by 1
cinematography
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Summary

cinematographer is a filmmaking occupation[1]. cinematographer is a type of camera operator[2], artist[3], and filmmaker[4].

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Abbas Kiarostami Agnès Varda Alain Resnais Alberto Granado Alfonso Cuarón Alfred Hitchcock Alisa Freindlich Andrzej Munk Andy Warhol Atom Egoyan Barry Sonnenfeld Bille August Bill Viola Bryan Greenberg Cary Joji Fukunaga Chantal Akerman Chris Marker Christopher Nolan Cindy Sherman Claude Lelouch Claude Zidi Conchita Wurst Connie Stevens Curt O. Schaller Daniel Gillies Danielle Feinberg Danis Tanović David Lynch Derek Jarman Doug Liman

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  33. [34] ↑ . ESCO - European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. Retrieved . esco.ec.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Turcoscandinavo · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID → direttore-della-fotografia
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en'
    Sitelink count → 57
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID: direttore-della-fotografia"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → cinematographers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: cinematographers, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923733|cinematographers (#289923733)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  3. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0009034-kameramani
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0009034-kameramani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 23w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main Wikidata property → P344
    Field of this occupation → film photography
    Instance of → filmmaking occupation, title of authority, occupation
    Subclass of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33353|batch #33353]]"
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