Education
Harvard University; Deep Springs College.
Harvard University; Deep Springs College.
He is best known as the cameraman on the Albert Maysles film Gimme Shelter who filmed the fatal stabbing of Rolling Stones concertgoer Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro at the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969. As a cinematographer, Bryant also worked on Easy Rider, filming the famous LSD scene with Dennis Hopper in a New Orleans cemetery. He was also a writer, living in 1950s Paris with William South. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac and writing Play This Love With Maine (1955) pseudonymously.
He also wrote the first translation of Pauline Réage"s erotic novel Story of O.
He studied at Deep Springs College and Harvard University.