Bestselling author and editor David Cohen presents What Matters, a book of photo-essays that aims to "convert outrage into action."
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David Elliot Cohen
Bestselling author and editor, David Elliot Cohen has written or co-authored more than seventy large-format illustrated books -- many with Rick Smolan -- that have collectively sold more than 5 million copies. Most were in the hugely popular Day in the Life or America 24/7 photography book series co-founded by Cohen and Smolan.
Four of Cohen's books -- A Day in the Life of America, A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, Christmas in America and America 24/7 -- have been New York Times bestsellers. Many others have been national bestsellers in the US and abroad, including A Day in the Life of Canada and A Day in the Life of Spain. Cohen also authored a popular travelogue, One Year Off, in 1999.
Recent works include Cohen's America 24/7 Project (2003-2005) was the largest documentary photography project in history. Participants included 25,000 digital photographers including 4,000 professionals from all fifty states. The project produced 53 illustrated books -- a national book, books for all 50 states plus Dogs 24/7 and Cats 24/7. The America 24/7 Project also launched 24/7 Media's groundbreaking "Custom Cover" technology.
Introduced on the Oprah Winfrey Show and featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Today Show, Custom Cover technology has allowed more than 80,000 buyers to put their own digital pictures on the cover of 24/7 books.
In 2002, Cohen's A Day in the Life of Africa project deployed 95 photojournalists from 23 countries throughout the African continent. In a single 24-hour span, these photojournalists shot more than 50,000 images and 100 hours of videos depicting Africa's vibrant people, landscape and culture. All publishing profits from A Day in the Life of Africa were donated to AIDS education programs for Africa.
Method of recording permanent images by the action of light projected by a lens in a camera onto a film or other light-sensitive material. It was developed in the 19th century through the artistic aspirations of two Frenchmen, Nicéphore Niepce and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, whose combined discoveries led to the invention of the first commercially successful process, the daguerreotype (1837). In addition, two Englishmen, Thomas Wedgwood and William Henry Fox Talbot, patented the negative-positive calotype process (1839) that became the forerunner of modern photographic technique. Photography was initially used for portraiture and landscapes. In the 1850s and '60s, Mathew B. Brady and Roger Fenton pioneered war photography and photojournalism. From its inception, two views of photography predominated: one approach held that the camera and its resulting images truthfully document the real world, while the other considered the camera simply to be a tool, much like a paintbrush, with which to create artistic statements. The latter notion, known as Pictorialism, held sway from the late 1860s through the first decade of the 20th century, as photographers manipulated their negatives and prints to create hazy, elaborately staged images that resembled paintings. By the 1920s and '30s, a new, more realistic style of photography gained prominence, as photographers such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams began to pursue sharply focused, detailed images. The Great Depression and two world wars inspired many photographers, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, to pursue documentary, often socially conscious photography. Inspired by such work, many photojournalists, including Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, also emerged during this period. In the second half of the 20th century, the urban social scene became a subject of much interest to photographers, as did celebrity portraiture and fashion photography. At the turn of the 21st century, photographers took advantage of digital capabilities by experimenting with enormous formats and new manipulative techniques. As technological advances improve photographic equipment, materials, and techniques, the scope of photography continues to expand enormously. See alsodigital camera.
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