Obituaries
D.A. Pennebaker obituary: the documentary pioneer who wrote life’s drama in lightning
A poet of the mobile sync-sound camera, Pennebaker’s raw, quicksilver portraits of performers from JFK to Dylan showed us unscripted truths worth waiting for, as the veteran observational documentarian Roger Graef remembers.
By Roger Graef
D.A. Pennebaker obituary: the documentary pioneer who wrote life’s drama in lightning