Jacobs L. Free-Lance Magazine Photography: A Guide to the Working Photojournalist

Amphoto, 1965. — 168 p."I believe you are correct in your assumption that there is no single book which would meet the needs as a text for a class in magazine photojournalism." So begins a letter to Lou Jacobs, Jr. by Cliff Edom, Director of Photojournalism at the University of Missouri. Free-Lance Magazine Photography fulfills that need. It shows everyone — high schooler, college student, ambitious amateur — all he needs to know about how to be a successful money-making free lance. For the free lance in business for himself, faced with the problems of finding and fulfilling assignments, it offers cogent advice on ideas, research, equipment, feature and news stories, illustrations, picture editing, copy and captions, editorial relations, markets, advertising, agents, ethics and the law. It is the best single-source guide to this exciting field available and will surely become a much thumbed through classic.