is sometimes mistaken for Weegee. His experimental films, however, are considered central to the literature of early American avant-garde cinema, and the influence of Ralph Steiner's visual style continues to assert itself; for example, contemporary avant-garde filmmaker Timoleon Wilkins cites Steiner as an inspiration. In his appreciation of Steiner, author Scott McDonald expands that list to include Dorsky, Andrew Noren, Larry Gottheim and Peter Hutton. The links between the first generation of American avant-garde filmmakers such as Steiner with the second – exemplified by Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage and others – are few, but Steiner is among those who managed to bridge the gap. Filmography H2O (1929; cinematographer/director) Mechanical Principles (1930; cinematographer/director) Surf and Seaweed (1931; cinematographer/director) Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa (1931; cinematographer/director) May Day in New York (1931; cinematographer/co-director) Dance Film (1931; cinematographer/director) Harbor Scenes (1932; cinematographer/director) Granite, a.k.a. The Quarry (1932; cinematographer/director) G-3 (1933; cinematographer/director) Café Universal (1934; cinematographer/director) Hands (1934; cinematographer/co-director) Pie in the Sky (1935; cinematographer/co-director) The People's March of Time (1935; cinematographer/co-director) The World Today: Black Legion (1936; cinematographer/co-director) The World Today: Sunnyside (1936; cinematographer/co-director) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936; cinematographer) People of the Cumberland (1938; cinematographer) The River (1938; cinematographer) The City (1939; cinematographer/co-director) New Hampshire Heritage (1940; cinematographer/director) Youth Gets a Break (1941; cinematographer) Troop Train (1942; cinematographer/director) The Joy of Seeing (1960-1975; cinematographer/director), includes: Seaweed, a Seduction (1960) One Man's Island (1969) Glory, Glory (1971) A Look at Laundry (1971) Beyond Niagara (1973) Look Park (1974) Hooray for Light! (1975) Showdown (1975) See also Cloudscape photography Notes Joel Stewart Zukor. Ralph Steiner: Filmmaker and Still Photographer. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, New York University, New York University, 1976. Scott McDonald. "Ralph Steiner" in Jan-Christoper Horak, ed., Lovers of Cinema: the first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. External links Bio from "New Frontiers in American Documentary Film" by Nicole Huffman, University of Virginia Getty Museum Bio, with reproduction of "Gypsy & Her Girls" MOMA Collection Page for Ralph Steiner Canyon Cinema Page for Timoleon Wilkins 1899 births 1986 deaths American experimental filmmakers People from Orange County, Vermont American documentary filmmakers Photographers from Ohio Photographers from Vermont