About the Author

For more than 40 years, award-winning photographer Santi Visalli has travelled the globe for leading magazines, newspapers, and book publishers. A master craftsman, he has been acclaimed for the range, precision, and poetry of his work. He is a prolific photojournalist who has covered the news from social issues to politics to lifestyles and has photographed five presidents of the United States: Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. He has also worked on films with such directors as Federico Fellini and Lina Wertmuller and has photographed numerous personalities. Visalli's photos have appeared in and on the covers of some 50 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Newsweek,Time, Life, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, American Heritage, Paris Match, Stern, Oggi, Epoca, and L'Europeo. His photographs are in many private collections, and six are in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. His photography has also been exhibited in the United States and Europe in both one-man and group shows