article_snippet: (The Hollywood Reporter)Albert Maysles, who collaborated along with Albert Maysles late brother David in a documentary film career that included the troubling 1970 concert documentary "Gimme Shelter," has died.
article_snippet: Albert Maysles was 88.
article_snippet: The director and cinematographer, an Oscar nominee, died Thursday at Albert Maysles home in Manhattan of natural causes, Stacey Farrar, marketing director at the Maysles Center in New York, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
article_snippet: Maysles was a cameraman on D.A. Pennebaker's "Monterey Pop" (1968), about the celebrated California music festival that featured electrifying performances from the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
article_snippet: A filmmaker and A filmmaker brother, who died in January 1987 at age 55, received an Oscar nomination for the 28-minute short "Christo's Valley Curtain" (1974), about the artist's first public work.
article_snippet: Maysles won three Emmys, two for Maysles work with Maysles brother on "The Last Romantic" and "Soldiers of Music" (1991) and one for "Abortion: Desperate Choices" (1991).
article_snippet: Maysles also filmed half-hour portraits of filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Robert Duvall and Jane Campion, and Maysles remained quite active in Maysles later years.
article_snippet: In the mid-1950s, Maysles traveled to Russia, where Maysles made a 1955 film on mental health care and psychiatry in Russia.
highlights_snippet: Albert Maysles was a pioneering documentarian .
  
highlights_snippet: Albert Maysles also did "Grey Gardens" 