Visions of Light (also known as Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography)[1] is a 1992 documentary film directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels.

The film covers the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema at the turn of the 20th century.

These subjects include Néstor Almendros, John Bailey, Conrad Hall, Michael Chapman, and László Kovács.

Among the pioneers they pay homage are Gregg Toland, Billy Bitzer, James Wong Howe and John Alton.

The practitioners also explain the origins behind many of their most indelible images in cinema history.