A golden age of Hollywood cinematography is slowly drawing to a close. Haskell Wexler, the director of photography who worked with everyone that mattered in the 1970s — Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, Terence Malick, Milos Forman, Mike Nichols — passed away on Dec. 27. Vilmos Zsigmond, an equally important cinematographer who shot "The Deer Hunter," "Deliverance," "The Long Goodbye" and a bunch of Woody Allen's films shuttered his lens a few days later on Jan. 1. Vittorio Storaro ("Apocalypse Now," "The Last Emperor") is arguably the last man standing from that generation of giants. Their legacy lay in the notion that the cameraman was an artist, not just a craftsman — an idea that sometimes even got them fired.