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.
