Photographs from the Edge of Reality: True Stories About Shooting on Location, Surviving, and Learning Along the Way [Hardcover]

John Harrington is a news photographer and having been a Radio-Television-Film major I was interested in getting his perspective of behind the scene shoots. The book was an enjoyable read as Mr. Harrington full of interesting anecdotes, stories, memories and insight. Harrington's access to important figures of our time allows us to see a viewpoint that we wouldn't otherwise get reading a blog or newspaper.

I did find the pictures to be a big of a disappointment. Some of it was the color--it wasn't as vibrant as I would assume the photos would project. Perhaps less dialogue and more photos would have made a coffee table book! Regardless, the book is well worth looking at and reading from several view points--that of a radio-television-film major, a journalist, a photographer, a historian! The dialogue is engaging and you'll find yourself staring at some of the pictures with new "eyes!"

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John Harrington has worked for over 20 years as an active photographer in Washington D.C. and around the world, working with both editorial and commercial clients. Editorially, his credits have included the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The National Geographic Society, USA Today, People, MTV, and Life. For corporate and public relations clients, John has successfully placed images with the wire services (Associated Press, Reuters, Gannett, Agence France Presse, and UPI) over three hundred times. Commercially, John has worked with well over half of the top fortune 50 companies, and even more of the top 500. Ad campaigns for Seimens, Coca Cola, General Motors, Bank of America, and Freddie Mac, to name a few, have been seen worldwide.

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