High Risk Photography: The Adventure Behind the Image

by John Annerino

Brilliant, Colorful, Action-Filled Images, The Story Behind the Camera as Well as in Front of It

John Annerino has compiled an album of his most intriquing adventure photography, providing captions that explain how each shot came about and special circumstances involved. This is not a technical manual, but a set of case-studies of the professional's high-adrenalin photography. Chapters Magic Light, Action, Portraits, Night, Unusual Landscapes, Water, Danger, People in the Landscape, Work. Forword by LIFE Magazine Picture Editor Melvin L. Scott, Preface by the author on "Adventure," and extended captions accompany each of the 95 full-color photographs.

119 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1991

About the author

Author and photographer John Annerino has been working in the American West and the frontier of Old México for 20 years, documenting its natural beauty, indigenous people, and political upheaval. A veteran contract photographer for the Liaison International and TimePix photo agencies in New York and Paris, and Marka Graphic Photo in Milano, John's photography is archived in the Time-Life Picture Collection and has appeared in scores of prestigious publications worldwide, including Time, LIFE, People, Newsweek, Scientific American, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times, and National Geographic Adventure. His acclaimed collection of distinguished books feature diverse interests, geographies, and cultures, and range from his most cherished photographic essay, Indian Country: Sacred Ground, Native People, to his most heart wrenching book, Dead in Their Tracks. His celebrated single-artist calendars include Desert Light, Inspiration, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and Mayan Long Count Calendar. John's lifetime commitment to publishing illuminates his "passion to document endangered places, peoples, cultures, and traditions."