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Joseph Sohm is an American history teacher turned producer-author and public speaker. Mr. Sohm is both student and teacher of America's past, present and future. He founded ''Visions of America'' (TM) as an ongoing multimedia project dedicated to capturing the American spirit in print and media presentations. Spanning thirty years, Sohm has traveled and photographed all 50 states. Images from his ''Visions of America'' collection are published approximately 8,000 -10,000 times a year worldwide, through his photo agencies Getty Images, Corbis and Alamy. ==Photographer== His images of America are published daily around the world in magazines such as ''National Geographic'', ''Newsweek'' and ''Time''; on book covers by Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan and Prentice-Hall; on CD covers by Warner Brothers, Atlantic Records and CBS/Sony; and in advertising for clients such as IBM, AOL, Kodak, Delta Air Lines, Microsoft, MCI, General Electric, Pepsi, Sony, Ford and Toshiba. His images have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, Discovery, History Channel, NBC's ''Today Show'' and ABC's ''Good Morning America''. ''Frontline''’s “The Choice 2008” on PBS featured many of his presidential images. On December 18, 2000, his image of the U.S. Constitution appeared on the presidential election covers of both ''Newsweek'' and ''U.S. News and World Report''. His image of the U.S. Capitol was featured on the cover of John Grisham’s book, ''The King of Torts''. His images are exhibited at American Embassies for the U.S. Department of State, New York's Neikrug Gallery, LA's Ira Roberts Gallery, First Boston Corporation and have been displayed in Bill Gates personal home on flatscreen digital displays. His work is featured in former Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning ''An Inconvenient Truth'' feature-film and lecture, in ''Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'' and in the opening sequence of Bill Maher’s ''Real Time'' on HBO. In 2008, Bank of America used Sohm’s photograph for the “Official Credit Card” for the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Summer Olympics. On July 3–4-5, 2008, his work was featured throughout Washington, D.C.’s Newseum Museum, which included a thirty-minute TV interview with Mr. Sohm. On June 23, 2008, he was a featured speaker at the Museum of the City of New York, where he followed Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Ed Koch. In 1996 he published ''Visions of America,'' the world's first global stock photography catalogue on America and the first by one photographer. The catalogue is represented in 36 nations and received a "Creative 26" Award of Distinction. In 2000, he published Pan-America with Corbis Images (owned by Bill Gates) - the first panorama stock catalogue exclusively on America. For Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 Democratic National Convention, he was the “Official Image Supplier” of Americana photographs for worldwide news coverage, network convention broadcast and live Internet broadcast. On September 11, 2002, in memory of 9/11, his work was featured throughout NBC’s network television broadcast of the “Concert For America,” attended by President Bush. His images are featured throughout President Clinton’s Presidential Library, as managed by the National Archives of the United States, and on the back-cover of President Clinton’s presidential top-selling biography, My Life. Joseph is an ongoing contributor to the non-partisan charitable foundation, “The Close Up Foundation, “ a Washington, D.C. non-profit that brings students from across America to see “Close Up,” how the U.S. federal government works. He serves as a Board of Director of the Museum of Democracy in New York City and the New West Symphony in California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Sohm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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