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Peter Riva

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UCLA Film School, BBC Apprentice, creator and producer 78+ hours of primetime wildlife TV, co-founder film history museum in Berlin, 30+ years work/w leaders aerospace + space exploration and environmental movement. 40+ years literary agent, writes Sci-Fi and Thrillers; true tales, knowledge, all based on life experience. Raised New York City, London, and Switzerland, lives in New Mexico.

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Peter Riva Sometimes fate plays a hand when you least expect it. I met Ansel Adams for an afternoon, we discussed form and emotion in photography, I posed the qu…moreSometimes fate plays a hand when you least expect it. I met Ansel Adams for an afternoon, we discussed form and emotion in photography, I posed the question, "Why then are the images from space so emotionally boring, the astronauts are compelling, dynamic people." Ansel told me to find out... I did and the result was Sightseeing; A Space Panorama (Knopf, 1985) - we found 175,000 images the astronauts had taken that were never made public. Took a bit of detective work and pressure through Congress.(less)
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