He filmed everyone from Bowie and Dylan to Bill Clinton, and turned documentaries into an art form. The Rolling Stone tribute to legendary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
Part of the reason Drew & Co. were able to capture moments on the fly was thanks to a technological innovation that Pennebaker helped initiate, in the form of a new camera that could sync-sound with images much more efficiently. He’d further customize his weapon of choice when he went off his own, making it more lightweight and adding a grip that could allow someone to mount it on their shoulder. That’s the camera you see in that famousshot.
Pennebaker’s music docs — god, those music docs. They form their own separate canon. Penny was there at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1973 when David Bowie performed the final Ziggy Stardust concert, which is why we can still thrill to see the performer in his silver spaceman tunic singing about leper messiahs and rock & roll suicides. He was in Toronto in 1969 when John Lennon performed alongside Little Richard, Eric Clapton and Bo Diddly.
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