Photographers and Their Studios: Creating an Efficient and Profitable Workspace [Paperback]

Helen T. Boursier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2001

The interior design of photographers’ consultation rooms and camera rooms can affect the efficiency and profitability of studio photography businesses. This book explores the studios of 20 top professional photographers and examines the design problems each faced, and the solutions they devised. Photographers will learn that their space must be an efficient and practical environment in which to create their photography and that it must convey to prospective clients the quality and character of the work they can provide. From studios in urban high-rises to small-town corner operations and even home-based studios, this book covers all the options available to studio owners.

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About the Author

Helen T. Boursier is the author of Black & White Portrait Photography, and Marketing and Selling Black & White Portrait Photography. She lives in East Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584280476
• ISBN-13: 978-1584280477
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,197,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A collection of tacky suburban photographer's lobbies, May 17, 2007

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Salvatore Cristini (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photographers and Their Studios: Creating an Efficient and Profitable Workspace (Paperback)

What a disappointment! The author roamed America to take pictures of tacky professional photographers' interiors. I expected to find serious professional photographic equipment in high-ceiling rooms with beams and lamps and reflectors, but all there is in the book are pictures of lobbies, waiting rooms and gardens with cheap gazebos to shoot marriage pictures. Even as an interior decoration book it would be a gross failure. The only possible reader I can imagine for such a book would be for an American rural portrait-and-marriage photographer to get an idea of how his colleagues suites are arranged.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book, average quality, February 22, 2010

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This review is from: Photographers and Their Studios: Creating an Efficient and Profitable Workspace (Paperback)

This book is right in the middle "average" in terms of quality. These are real portrait studios and some are dramatic and some are ordinary but interesting to look at. The book will give you ideas but keep in mind it is somewhat dated, most are pre-digital studios shown if that matters. If you're looking for a book that focuses on high tech NY high fashion studios this isn't it. But if you want to see a cross section of portrait photo studios across America than you'll find it worth reading.