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Show Family Weekly How to change your life with a camera July 16, 1967 FamousSchools Westport, Connecticut ossso A career in photography can bring you Check only one: money, prestige, travel, excitement — almost LD Photography T want to find out if Thav e Aptitude Test | mePe tt } photographic aptitudeworth developing. Please send me, without obligation, your Famous PhotographersAptitude Test and brochure describing your photography courses. D0 Art I want tofindout if I have art talent worth developitig. Please sendme, without obligation, your FamousArtists Talent Test and brochuredescribing your art cgyrses, Miss | «2.6 *: ¥ . [Circle one and please print) Age. I, my 35 years as a professional photographer, my camera brought me earnings of over four million dollars. It carried my wife and me halfway aroundthe globe. It enabled me to choose my own hours, myown assignments, my ownvacations. Photographers live exciting lives I’m notalone. Many photographers live exciting lives: Clip Sviccastcer gens ieee perta Lede ead Directorof the Famous Photographers School election campaign.It even won for me— a child of the slums — two awards from Harvard University. Address. State see... By Victor Keppler My camera took me duck hunting with British nobility. It admitted me to secret meetings at the height of a presidential Mr. Mrs. anything you want —says a man who made a fortune taking pictures Zip. Accredited by the Accrediting Commission P04 of the National Home Study Council. A-5590 Joe Costa, dean of news photographers, has been the friend of four presidents, Irving Penn's photos hang in major art museums all over the world. Richard.Avedonand Philippe Halsman regularly get paid to photograph the most beautiful women in the world. If youenjoy taking pictures —many of these rewards are open to you because opportunities for new photographers are increasing steadily. 2m?es |? c 33 :/:2 Part-time and fulltime 2M a Oo:§ $e: 2° 8 22 ot z \|/¢m 3 8 Today, more magazines buyahd publish photographs than when F started out. There are morg jobs for photographers, 3 gesin ; \38 too. For example,it is not unusualfor a fis ste ¢ 2 fo© jf: |t£ oO opportunities constantly growing large company to employ over 40 staff photographers. Advertising photography is more lucrative than ever. The photographer who can take striking advertising pictures — the kind on which million dollar campaigns are built — virtually names his ownfee, Such photographersoften earn over $50,000 a year. Even photographers working right in their own communities, many of them only part time, are earning handsome incomes. Last year alone, local photog- raphers were paid almost half a billion dollars for their work! ‘Ten famous photographers offer a new kind of training To help others share in the growing opportunities in photography, ten of America’s most distinguished photographers havejoined together to start a new kin of home-study school that has always been needed. They include: Philippe Halsman, Irving Penn, Alfred Eisen- staedt, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Ezra Stoller, Arthur d’Arazien, Richard Beattie, Joseph Costa and Harry Garfield. ese famous photographers spent three years pouring into a series of re- Dean of Life photographers: Alfred Eisenstaedt gets paid to take pictures = bees world’s most beautiful women (like Sophia Loren above). He is regularly. ser to places where most people would love to vacation ~ the South Seas, the Caribbean, the capital cities of the world. each lesson would be like an actual your photographs. They write you long, studioorfield demonstration. Then,they developed a series of practical lessons and assignments — which Their teaching is as personal as the you carry out with your own camera, in give a promising assistant. your own homeorneighborhood, on your own time schedule. Students report early success Like private studio tutoring Your instructorsare all skilled professional photographers, working under the famous Guiding Faculty. They spend up to two hours on each “My last prize-winning picture got me a jobasfull-time staff photographerof our local paper,” reports Robert Coyle, Dubuque, Iowa. Leslie C. Crine, Port Jervis, New York writes, “Although an amateur, I was chosen over three pro™ assignment you send to the School. They make special critiques (using pictures fessionals to photograph our new hospi- had taken each of them manyyears to acquire. They contributed or made over and diagrams) which show you pre- Mrs, Gerhard R. Schade, Jr. of Glastonbury, Conn., says: “Since starting the markable lessons all the know-how it 2,000 “teaching photographs,” so that cisely what you should do to improve tal’s dedication.” Course, I've had photos published in seven magazines and newspapers.” And Vincent Varvaro of Quincy, Mass., writes: “Shortly after I started your Course, I opened my own studio andal“ready I have won two awards from the a z re Art Directors Club of Boston.” = Free AptitudeTestoffered Z g . personal letters of advice and guidance. tutoring a master photographer might To help you determine whether you have the potential for becoming a successful photographer able to earn money with your camera, the ten Famous Photogra- g 3 2 phers havedevised a revealing 12 page Aptitude Test. To receive your copy, alongwith anillustrated booklet describing the School, withoutcost or obli- =72 igi fite a 758 * 2 gation, merely fill in and mail the’ post- cafd. Your Test will be graded without charge.If your Test shows you have the Richard Beattie, leading photographic-illustra produced and sold over $1,000,000 worth of advert for such companies as Pepsi-Cola, Ford and Eastm ‘A single ph can by ring you income er after year. This one by Arthur d’Arazien has earned him and hestill.owns talent, you may enroll for training in the Famous Photographers School. You are underno obligation, of course. c |