For stock photography, Bill Binzen is represented by Corbis Stock Market, 800-999-0800, www.corbisstockmarket.com.

About Bill Binzen...

Bill Binzen's interest in photography began in childhood when he first peered down into the reflective finder of a Brownie Box camera. He found he could compose the elements he saw there until they had just the right balance to his eye. He spent his teen years playing around with these compact square images; then he was given a 35mm Leica and he really took off.

Not much later he found himself pointing his Leica quickly at compositions dictated to within an inch of his life by the Army Air Force - tight formation patterns as seen from the cockpit of a B17 bomber in World War II.

The war over, he continued studying composition, now in non-photographic form at the Art Students' League in new York City. That led on to mastery of the subtle design elements needed to lure sophisticated customers to the advertisements created by the Madison Avenue agency of Ogilvy & Mather, where he worked as an art director for twelve years.

But Bill Binzen's love of the camera stayed with him, and in 1962 he took the plunge into the rougher waters of freelance photography. From then on, his work involved magazine reportage, photography for advertising campaigns, photographically illustrated books for adults and children, and much experimentation with "sandwiching" of transparencies, which he did long before the era of the computer made the digital manipulation of images relatively simple.

His work has appeared in publications such as Life, Esquire, Time, Holiday, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and the New York Times Magazine. Natural light and natural settings, both indoors and out, have always been Bill Binzen's favorite metier. His family has had ties with northwest Connecticut since his boyhood, so its scenery, seasons and activities have formed his imaginative background even while he was busy encapsulating the wider world in cameras very much more sophisticated than a Brownie Box.

Books by Bill Binzen

Alfred Goes Flying, 1976.

Alfred Goes House Hunting, 1974.

Alfred the Little Bear, 1970.

All on a Summer's Day (with William Wise), 1971.

The Berkshires, 3rd ed.,1995.

Carmen, 1970.

Doubletake, 1972.

First Day in School, 1972.

Little Will the Bugle Boy, 1963.

Miguel's Mountain, 1968.

Punch and Jonathan, 1969.

Rooftop Hogi, 1972.

Rory Story, 1974.

Tenth Street, 1968.

The Walk, 1972.

Year after Year, 1976.

Park in the City (with Philip Ressner), 1971.