People Shots that Sell: How to Succeed in Stock Photography [Paperback]

Tracey Tannenbaum (Author), Kate Stevens (Author)

Book Description

Series: Shooting for Stock | Publication Date: February 2002

The first title in this series will explore the huge area of people stock photography. Any image stock photographers produce may be used by a number of different sources e.g. magazine editors, galleries, publishers, art directors. As society becomes increasingly introspective, the demand for images of other people's lifestyles grows rapidly. The author explores the various ways in which a subject can be expressed through pictorial and textual examination of different approaches. There are also sections on how, where and when photographers can sell their images, and how much for. Useful contact details and web addresses are also included.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Rotovision (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2880466091
• ISBN-13: 978-2880466091
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 9.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,214,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Creative Ideas, October 7, 2006

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This review is from: People Shots that Sell: How to Succeed in Stock Photography (Paperback)

People Shots That Sell is an inspirational overview of stock photography. The book's authors have been editors and agents in the industry and their perspective is clearly from that standpoint which can be a good thing for photographers. However, that also accounts for why the book glosses over many details and how-to information that photographers getting started in the stock business will want to know. There are no technical details on how the images in the book were produced, and none of the images have accompanying sales figures on how profitable they have been. Neither are any of them credited, not even in the back of the book, and that's an oversight that any photographer would cringe at. I suspect that nearly all of them were licensed from royalty-free libraries. I still recommend Photos That Sell by Lee Frost as the best book that I've found on this topic. People Shots That Sell is a beautiful book with wonderful photographs that can be very inspirational and idea generative for staging lifestyle people shoots to generate stock images. Most experienced stock shooters will not learn anything new from this book, but it can be a great resource for those wanting to start licensing their work as stock.