The listing, The Studio (Life Library of Photography) Hardcover has ended.
Studio photographers are among the highest-paid, most influential figures in the entire field of photography. When such magazines as Vogue or Harper's Bazaar publish an important studio photographer's pictures, his personal taste may start an important trend in the fashion industry, a major business in the United States. In his advertising photographs - and studio photographers do their most lucrative work for Madison Avenue - his success or failure can affect the fortunes of the product or service he is helping to sell.