In the 1966 film "Blow-Up," a fashion photographer played by David Hemmings believes he has photographed a murder.
(The photographer played by John Savage in Oliver Stone's film "Salvador" was based on John Hoagland).
In "Time Stands Still" Mr. James, below, will play the journalist husband of a photographer, played by Laura Linney, who is recovering from an injury in the Iraq war.
Remember Audrey Hepburn, a bookstore clerk in awe of a professor of Empathicalism who is remade into a high-fashion model in love with a photographer, played by Fred Astaire?
He cast her as the victim of the film's sinister, duffel-coated protagonist, a serial-killing photographer played by Carl Boehm.
"I'm an anti-artist," the man, played by Lars Nilsen, says, by way of flirting with the woman, a photographer played by Sarah Gay, adding, "dedicated to the destruction of all art".
"Time Stands Still," a drama last year about a war photographer (played by Laura Linney) adjusting to civilian life in Brooklyn, earned strong reviews but did not recoup the full capitalization for its commercial run.
His classic 1969 film Medium Cool mixed documentary and dramatic elements, telling the story of a television photographer played by Robert Forster who covers the violence between Chicago police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
His pan is a smack to the ego of Mars herself, the creator of the works on the walls and an oh-so-successful, wickedly provocative fashion photographer, played with perfect over-the-top white-hot cool by Faye Dunaway.
Likewise, when the photographer played it during an album cover shoot he had with Liberace, the flamboyant star picked it up off the record player and walked off with it.
