"Crescenzo Giacomo Notarile was raised in ‘Graves End’, Brooklyn, New York from first generation Italian descent. Born of artistic lineage, Crescenzo’s parents, Maria – an interior designer and sculptress, along with her husband Vincenzo – an art director, graphic designer and painter, encouraged his creative inclination throughout his life. Graduating from high school in Huntington Long Island with a graduating class of over 2000, Crescenzo received a high honors Cum Laude scholarship to New York University for ‘Outstanding Photographic Achievement’, and also a high honors degree from the Nikon School of Photography for Photojournalism. Upon completing an extensive photo essay on the homeless for a magazine, Crescenzo decided to create a 16mm black & white film of the same subject for a PSA. This allowed Crescenzo to emotionally compare and study movement contrasted by stillness, and to epitomize the feeling of kinetic energy through a single frame – a still photograph transcending into moving frames. The film was received with critical acclaim at the student festival. This experience brought Crescenzo to shift his focus from photojournalism, to motion picture filmmaking. As a result, he followed a mentor filmmaker who was teaching at The New York Institute of Technology, and transferred there immediately. He soon directed and photographed a short film on the elderly and his grandmother, titled, ‘Old Friends’, which was aired on Public Broadcast Television, and was the recipient of an award at the University’s Film Festival...
During the last 35 years, Crescenzo has been a pioneer in the art of cinematography. He has photographed over 600 music videos for many of the giant recording artists, such as: The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Ricky Martins, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Placido Domingo, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, N’ Sync, ZZ Top, Nine Inch Nails, Aretha Franklin, C&C Music Factory, Beyonce, Patti Smith, Duran Duran, AC/DC, Tom Petty, U2 amongst many many others… He directed the photography on a motion picture for Michael Jackson, called, Moonwalker, along with the Grammy Award winning music video for U2, Where The Streets Have No Name…
Crescenzo’s mantra is: ‘To see, is to feel…’ He believes it takes a lifetime to become an ‘artist’, and you cannot title yourself such, until you investigate yourself as being inside the nucleus of your mind, heart and environment. It is only then to stare creatively inward with unconditional feeling and raw honesty – hoping to manifest a language of expression that is something divine and intangible." - Bio selects taken from CrescenzoNotarile.com
