Who is Boswell?
Boswell is the pseudonym for an award-winning freelance photographer, stock photo agent, fashion and travel poster designer, book publisher, and former photo tour operator with an engaging, and sometimes controversial, story to tell.
You’ve likely seen his photos in national and international magazines, books and travel brochures, as well as on calendars and the internet. This book will describe how Boswell produced his prolific number of marketable photos as he built a successful business as a professional photographer, and how an inspiration during his early years in a rural Midwestern town of eighty-five led to a life spent traveling worldwide in 130 countries and territories on all seven continents.
Filled with entertaining anecdotes and accompanied by 99 photos, Boswell’s journey takes readers inside some of the most colorful aspects of editorial and corporate photography:
The challenges of landing and executing magazine assignments, gaining 'special access required’ entrée to corridors of exclusivity and privilege, cruising the world’s seas and oceans, and 'seeking serendipity’ in the world’s streets, as well as uncovering some dark sides of the industry.
Just a few stories include: Waiting for Mandela, chasing Doctor Death, repatriating skyjackers from Cuba, attending the opening session of Zimbabwe’s first parliament, surviving the Drake Passage, standing on stage with the Lord of the Dance, roving the pits with famous race drivers, hanging with a Piston Bad Boy, chumming with Sparky in the Tigers locker room, and being interviewed by the incomparable oral historian Studs Turkel while taking his portrait.
One of the first Americans to visit Mao’s China during the Cultural Revolution, Boswell returned over fifty times to produce books on China, including a very large one stolen by the French. Several chapters of his unlikely story are devoted to travels in China, how specializing in that country proved a key to his photographic success, and why he fell in love in a rice paddy.
Spis treści
Chapter 1. Starting from Nowhere
Chapter 2. Escaping Butt Crack
Chapter 3. The Prolonged College Years
Chapter 4. A Job in Detroit
Chapter 5. It Started With Buying a Camera
Chapter 6. Born to Travel
Chapter 7. A Long China Journey Begins
Chapter 8. The Accidental Travel Writer
Chapter 9. A Return to China Sooner Than Expected
Chapter 10. The FBI is Looking for You
Chapter 11. A Photographer’s Education Never Ends
Chapter 12. Zimbabwe: Surrealism and Land Mines
Chapter 13. A Photo Tour Would Be a Great Idea
Chapter 14. Going Solo in China
Chapter 15. Evolving the Perfect Photo Tour
Chapter 16. The Most Beautiful Place in the World
Chapter 17. Guilin Redux
Chapter 18. A Special Idea for a Photo Tour
Chapter 19. The World’s Greatest Tourist Attraction
Chapter 20. Beyond the Great Wall
Chapter 21. Southwest Explorer
Chapter 22. Sichuan & Searching for Old China
Chapter 23. Silk Road Trilogy
Chapter 24. Getting High in Tibet
Chapter 25. Where to Next?
Chapter 26. Oh Yeah, I Remember Them
Chapter 27. Adventures on the Road
Chapter 28. Rugs, Rocks, and Leafs
Chapter 29. The Freedom of Freelancing
Chapter 30. Someone Has to Do It
Chapter 31. Going Where Others Do Not Go
Chapter 32. When Freelancing Seemed Like a Real Job
Chapter 33. A Prolific Selective Shooter
Chapter 34. Shooting Stock on Assignment
Chapter 35. Shooting Stock by Invitation
Chapter 36. Shooting Icons & Amazing Places
Chapter 37. A Big Selling Michigan Book
Chapter 38. A Badly Timed Book on Beijing
Chapter 39. L’Affaire du Livre Volé
Chapter 40. The Publishing Biz
Chapter 41. Introduction to Cruising
Chapter 42. Ultimate Book of a Lifetime
Chapter 43. Doesn’t Anyone Buy Books Anymore?