Opportunities in Photography Careers

Bervin M. Johnson, Robert E. Mayer, Fred Schmidt

VGM Career Horizons, 1991 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 146 pages

Beginning with a short history of photography, the author devotes a chapter to each of 5 careers (see contents screen), plus shorter articles on several related occupations, including a description of the field, employment outlook, career advancement, educational requirements, salaries, and sources of further information. Also has lists of schools, books and periodicals, and professional associations.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Commercial Photography: 5
• Educational Preparation: 13

About the author

Robert Mayer was a journalist and author of the 1977 superhero novel Superfolks. He attended the City College of New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. While in journalism school he received a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, and after graduation he joined the Washington Post before going to work for Newsday, where he spent the next 10 years of his career. After six years at Newssday, Mayer became its New York City columnist, and in 1968 he won the National Headliner Award, given to the best feature columnist in the country. In both 1969 and 1971, he won the Mike Berger Award, given for the year's best writing about New York City, and was the first person to ever win it twice. In the 1970s Mayer moved to Santa Fe, N.Mex., to concentrate on writing books. He wrote 13 novels and three works of nonfiction. Superfolks, his best-known work, is a novel meant for adults that satirizes and deconstructs the superhero genre. Robert Mayer passed away on July 23, 2019 at the age of 80, from complications from Parkinson's Disease.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Opportunities in Photography Careers; Opportunities in... Series; VGM opportunities series
• Authors: Bervin M. Johnson, Robert E. Mayer, Fred Schmidt
• Contributor: Fred Schmidt
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: VGM Career Horizons, 1991
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Oct 9, 2009
• ISBN: 0844281522, 9780844281520
• Length: 146 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Careers; Photography / Business Aspects; Photography / Commercial; Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing