Books by Kenneth Kobre (San Francisco State University, USA)

Professor Ken Kobre directs the video and photojournalism program at San Francisco State University. His book Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, published by Focal Press-Elsevier, has been the widest selling text on photojournalism in the world since 1980. It is now in its sixth edition. Kobre is also co-author of the seventh and eighth editions of the classic basic textbook Photography, Prentice Hall, and author of How to Photograph Friends and Strangers, Curtin & London. His photographs of a young Russian immigrant have been published in a children's book, L'Chaim: The Story of a Russian Emigre Boy, Little Brown. He is also the inventor and patent holder of Professor Kobre's Lightscoop (R), a device that bounces the light from the pop-up flash on SLR cameras (www.lightscoop.com). Kobre is the publisher of KobreGuide to the web's best videojournalism (www.KobreGuide.com). Kobre has produced independent video documentaries including Deadline Every Second: On Assignment with 12 Associated Press Photographers, available on Amazon.com, Inside Sports Illustrated and Shooting Stars at the Cannes Film Festival.