One with a semi-interesting story: In the late 70s/early 80s there were a couple of film graduates that were exploiting time lapse cinematography at the same time, some from California colleges, others from the Atlantic side, and a handful self-taught and/or incited by the very early pioneers. In this battle for winning the place of "first person who did cool time lapse" enters the figure of Louie Schwartzberg, a jew yorker and one of the early graduates in California.
The "man" seems to have always been proud of his trade, he kept practicing and made some small footage rolls for TV news channels and other jobs, one day he was even tasked to do a couple of small vehicle shots in NY for one of his "rivals", Ron Fricke. Louie says he spend some years bragging how that guy needed his help until one day Koyaanisqatsi was premiered, i think it's fair to say most here know how influential and hegemonic that film was, now imagine the few who specialized in that kind of camera work, it was practically a game over for anyone looking for that cool title of time lapse pioneer... for Louie's disdain it was directed by an art outsider, and for his horror the guy was also a christian friar, and as a further kick to the balls the director of photography was Ron Fricke himself, who had used his previous heli and barge shots in the most emblematic part of the movie.
In a talk the guy mentions how, even when he got paid as an outsourced hand and practically he could've been erased from the credits, Fricke actually did credit him as an "additional cinematographer", but it's obvious the guy was/is livid as fuck about not getting the full honors. He kept going with motivation as he said (raging butthurt i would call it) and actually landed a few jobs, truth be told he had portfolio and is good at it, so in the immediate years after the movie's release and with the time lapse meme/popularity at its peak one of his gigs was an experimental music video titled Individual Choice commissioned by the master Jean-Luc Ponty, widely considered the greatest electric violinist around. The new-fangled nature of the video was coupled with Ponty also experimenting with early electronica after many years playing jazz and fusion, so it can be said it was a sight to see and hear in the early MTV days, especially when Koyaa didn't have a good theatrical release outside the U.S. and practically very few saw it anyways.
As far as i checked this is his only music video done as a single job, Louie would later be asked to help as camera man or doing single gigs for movies, either from Spielberg or schlock distributors, until he started working for the newly-founded Discovery Channel in the early 90s. Soon he would found a stock image company specializing in you guessed it, and he placed everything he had done which was quite the lot; Getty Images would soon buy it and the guy was practically set for cruise control the next years doing practically what he wanted. Many shows and movies used his stock footage, licensing rules i think say if they are longer than i don't recall how much then he would then need to be credited, so he landed some interesting bills like Sex & The City, Men in Black and Syriana.
This dude did know how to sell his trade, odds are you have seen him if you have watched time-lapse film footage from an american city, and in recent years he also went for social media, throwing claims like being "the only cinematographer in the world who has been shooting time-lapse film 24 hours a day, 7 days a week continuously for over three decades", some small documentaries and also an avid TED talk figure. I heard one and the guy really seems to be strange, when he talks about his early days you can see there's still some vitriol left, like when he talks about machines banging nature but in other aspects he's just a seemingly normal dude.
Still i find Ron Fricke to be the head honcho of time lapse, having pulled Chronos and Baraka apart from Koyaa, but in quite recent years Schwartzberg seems to be carrying more noise, appearing with Oprah, directing Disney nature stuff, NatGeo shorts and getting his stuff narrated by Hollywood leading actresses, along with implying he was an ideological precursor of Koyaa. At least he's moving forwards but looks like no matter how niche and specific you area is, there's always going to be a tribe member stepping on your heels.
He only did Ponty's job "officially", here it is in one VHS rip on .vob, there's probably a better quality copy out there but oh well.
https://anonfiles.com/t2BbCfZ2ob/_-film-_MsVd_LSwrtzrg_rar