ASMP NorCal presents RICK SMOLAN THE SECRETS OF FUNDING YOUR OWN BOOK PROJECTS

01/13/2009 - 6:00pm
01/13/2009 - 9:30pm

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RICK SMOLAN TO SHARE THE SECRETS OF FUNDING YOUR OWN BOOK PROJECTS

If you've ever dreamed of producing a book of your own photography or wondered how to raise sponsorship for a photo project please join photographer Rick Smolan on Tuesday January 13th at Left Space Studios to learn more about the pioneering work this creative photographer has done in the publishing and photography words  for the past two decades. Smolan will share his knowledge of how to pitch your projects to publishers and how to find corporate sponsorship for your project.  He'll also share tips and secrets about how to get the media to help you publicize your book once its published.

Rick Smolan is a former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer best known as the creator
of the Day in the Life book series. He and his partner, Jennifer Erwitt, are the principals of Against All Odds
Productions, and their global photography projects combine creative storytelling with
state-of-the-art technology. Fortune magazine describes Against All Odds as “One of the
25 Coolest Companies in America.” Many of their books have appeared on the New York Times best-seller lists
and have been featured on the covers of Fortune, Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report. Their
books include America at Home, UK at Home, Blue Planet Run, America 24/7, One Digital Day, 24 Hours
in Cyberspace, Passage to Vietnam, The Power to Heal, Medicine’s Great Journey and From Alice to Ocean.
Smolan and Erwitt live with their two children, in Sausalito.

http://www.myamericaathome.com/

http://www.america24-7.com/bios/directors.shtml

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rick_smolan_tells_the_story_of_a_girl.html

To be held at LeftSpace Studios in SF  http://www.leftspace.com/   on January 13th, 6-9 PM.

Left Space Studios
2055 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

 ASMP members - Free
BATW, and APA members - $10
Students - $5 (with ID)
Non-members - $20

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Another Jewish photographer is Peter Basch. His "photographs for male-oriented publications won him the reputation of having photographed 100,000 nude women." [GILBERT, G., 1996, p. 60] Daniel Howard Cohen died of AIDS in 1995. He was "an educator who grew up in vacation homes Baltimore and went from being an outlaw leftist to running the photography program at one of the nation's most prestigious journalism schools