Steven Barry Poster, A.S.C, I.C.G. (born 1 March 1944) is an American cinematographer and photographer who is the former President of the International Cinematographers Guild. He is best known for his collaborations with Richard Kelly, including the director's 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko.

Poster began his career as a creative assistant at 'The Film Group,' a commercial film production company based in Chicago, Illinois. After being promoted to director of photography due to his skill at lighting, he met Herschell Gordon Lewis and worked with him in various crew positions on a total of three films. Poster founded a production company with director Michael Mann and served as the cinematographer on numerous industrial and education films. He served as the second-unit director of photography on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Poster joined the American Society of Cinematographers in 1987, relocating to Hollywood in the process. He shot the iconic music video to Madonna's "Like a Prayer", as well as commercials directed by Ridley Scott and Kinka Usher. In 1988, he was nominated for the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Releases for his work on Someone to Watch Over Me. Poster served as the President of the ASC between 2002-2003. In 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for Mrs. Harris. That same year, he was elected as the National President of the International Cinematographers Guild, a position he held until 2019.

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Steven (Barry) Poster, né le 1er mars 1944 à Chicago, en Illinois, aux (États-Unis), est un directeur de la photographie américain (membre de l'ASC), parfois crédité Steven B. Poster ou Steve Poster.

Au cinéma, le premier long métrage de Steven Poster comme chef opérateur à part entière sort en 1981. Parmi ses films suivants (majoritairement américains ou en coproduction) à ce poste, mentionnons Traquée de Ridley Scott (1987), Une chance sur deux de Patrice Leconte (film français, 1998), The Box de Richard Kelly (2009) et Amityville: The Awakening de Franck Khalfoun (2017).

Il est également à plusieurs reprises directeur de la photographie de seconde équipe (la première fois sur Rencontres du troisième type de Steven Spielberg en 1977) ou auteur de prises de vues additionnelles (notamment pour Blade Runner de Ridley Scott en 1982).

À la télévision américaine majoritairement, il est chef opérateur sur des séries et téléfilms depuis 1978. Mentionnons le téléfilm Roswell, le mystère de Jeremy Kagan (1994) et les épisodes pilotes des séries The Loop (2006), Raising the Bar: Justice à Manhattan (2008) et Hemlock Grove (2013).

Steven Poster est depuis 1987 membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) et le président en 2002-2003. De plus, il est président de l'International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) depuis 2006.

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