Word: smolan
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Publishing executive David Cohen, who had produced similar books on the U.S. and on the Soviet Union with Rick Smolan, dispatched 90 photographers throughout China one day last spring. Months of planning went into the project, which was sponsored by Eastman Kodak, Nikon, Northwest Airlines, BankAmerica, Holiday Inn and Federal Express. Says TIME picture editor Michele Stephenson, who helped supervise the project in Beijing: "As fate would have it, A Day in the Life of China captured a portrait of this sprawling nation hours before the beginning of the student revolt...
Winston Churchill called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This week's cover story looks inside the wrapping. We have assembled an exclusive 28-page portrait of "A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union," excerpted from a forthcoming book by Rick Smolan and David Cohen, which is surely one of the most thorough attempts to capture the soul of that cryptic country...
...photographs on these and the following pages are the fruit of an extraordinary feat of organization. In the past eight years, Rick Smolan and David Cohen have co-directed projects that captured a single day in the lives of Australia, Canada, Japan and America. Now, after three years of complex negotiations with a government long used to rendering its territory invisible, they dispatched 100 top photographers from West and East to record a single 24-hour period. The result is A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, culled from 127,000 images snapped on Friday...
...Roll Drummer Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead takes one along on road trips, tapping out messages between performances. Space Shuttle Trainee Loren Acton has his along when he leaves Sunnyvale, Calif, for the Kennedy Space Center, using it to draft memos and read mail. New York Photographer Rick Smolan carries one on photo assignments, putting him in contact with cameramen all around the world. Physician Andrew Bern relies on his to get patient information in medical emergencies. Says Bern: "I don't go anywhere without it. Some day it will save lives...