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{{short description|Polish cinematographer (born 1937)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2015}}
'''Adam Holender''' (born 13 November 1937) is a Polish cinematographer, best known for his work on ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''.
He was born 13 November 1937 in [[Kraków]], Poland, the son of a judge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm |title=Adam Holender |publisher=Cinematographers.nl |date= |accessdate=20 September 2015 |archive-date=7 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071332/http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1939, he and his family were deported to a Siberian labor camp, and not allowed to return to Kraków until 1947.<ref name=cinematographers />
Holender studied architecture before enrolling at PWSFTviT in [[Łódź]], from where he graduated in 1964.<ref name=cinematographers>{{cite web|title=Adam Holender ASC|url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm|website=cinematographers|accessdate=15 September 2015|archive-date=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071332/http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
''Midnight Cowboy'' was Holender's first cinematography assignment: he was recommended to director [[John Schlesinger]] by Holender's childhood friend, filmmaker [[Roman Polanski]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Goldstein, Patrick |author-link=Patrick Goldstein |title='Midnight Cowboy' and the very dark horse its makers rode in on |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-27-ca-cowboy27-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 27, 2005 |access-date=August 27, 2009}}</ref> According to Schlesinger his inspiration to make the movie came from the 1967 Yugoslav film ''[[When I Am Dead and Gone]]'' by a Serbian director [[Živojin Pavlović]].<ref>Surfing the Black – Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and Its Transgressive Moments
Author: Gal Kirn, Dubravka Sekulić and Žiga Testen Publisher: Jan van Eyck {{ISBN|978-90-72076-51-9}}
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== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|1969
|''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''
|[[John Schlesinger]]
|
|-
|1971
|''[[The Panic in Needle Park]]''
|[[Jerry Schatzberg]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1972
|''[[Moonwalk One]]''
|[[Theo Kamecke]]
|
|-
|''[[The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (film)|The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds]]''
|[[Paul Newman]]
|
|-
|1974
|''[[Man on a Swing]]''
|[[Frank Perry]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1978
|''The Other Side of Hell''
|[[Ján Kadár]]
|TV movie
|-
|''[[If Ever I See You Again (film)|If I Ever See You Again]]''
|[[Joseph Brooks (songwriter)|Joseph Brooks]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1979
|''[[The Seduction of Joe Tynan]]''
|[[Jerry Schatzberg]]
|
|-
|''[[Promises in the Dark (film)|Promises in the Dark]]''
|[[Jerome Hellman]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |1980
|''[[Simon (1980 film)|Simon]]''
|[[Marshall Brickman]]
|
|-
|''[[The Shadow Box]]''
|Paul Newman
|TV movie
|-
|''[[The Idolmaker]]''
|[[Taylor Hackford]]
|
|-
|1986
|''[[The Boy Who Could Fly]]''
|[[Nick Castle]]
|
|-
|1987
|''[[Street Smart (film)|Street Smart]]''
|Jerry Schatzberg
|
|-
|1988
|''[[To Kill a Priest]]''
|[[Agnieszka Holland]]
|
|-
|1989
|''[[The Dream Team (1989 film)|The Dream Team]]''
|[[Howard Zieff]]
|
|-
|1994
|''[[Fresh (1994 film)|Fresh]]''
|[[Boaz Yakin]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1995
|''[[Smoke (film)|Smoke]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Wayne Wang]]
|
|-
|''[[Blue in the Face]]''
|
|-
|1996
|''[[I'm Not Rappaport (film)|I'm Not Rappaport]]''
|[[Herb Gardner]]
|
|-
|1997
|''[[8 Heads in a Duffel Bag]]''
|[[Tom Schulman]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1998
|''[[A Price Above Rubies]]''
|Boaz Yakin
|
|-
|''[[Wide Awake (1998 film)|Wide Awake]]''
|[[M. Night Shyamalan]]
|
|-
|2000
|''[[Mary and Rhoda]]''
|[[Barnet Kellman]]
|TV movie
|-
|2002
|''Roads to Riches''
|Michelle Gallagher
|
|-
|2004
|''[[Stateside (film)|Stateside]]''
|Reverge Anselmo
|
|-
|2005
|''[[Carlito's Way: Rise to Power]]''
|Michael Bregman
|
|-
|2007
|''[[Shortcut to Happiness]]''
|[[Alec Baldwin]] (credited as "Harry Kirkpatrick")
|
|-
|2019
|''[[Apollo 11 (2019 film)|Apollo 11]]''
|[[Todd Douglas Miller]]
|Documentary
|}
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