Amistad to Publish Photo Book of Obama’s Campaign

By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 6/26/2008 7:40:00 AM

HarperCollins’s Amistad imprint announced today it will publish Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photos on October 28 with a 250,000-copy first printing. The book will cover Barack Obama’s campaign from its beginning through June, and will include more than 150 full color and b&w photographs plus an introductory essay.

Deb Willis, chair and professor of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Photography and Imaging, will select and edit the photos. Kevin Merida, author of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas (Doubleday) and a Washington Post writer, will write the introductory essay.

Amistad v-p and editorial director Dawn Davis and Deb Willis negotiated the book deal; literary agent Andrew Blauner negotiated the deal for Merida’s essay.