George
Olson, Director of Photography of Sunset magazine, began his
career as a newspaper photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and
the Kansas City Star. He moved to San Francisco in 1977, where he was
based as a freelancer. He shot for many publications, including National
Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and The New
York Times, and had many corporate clients as well. He also served as
a freelance picture editor for the San Francisco Examiner, and many of
the series of Day in the Life... books. He was also a picture editor on
the books Christmas in America, Jews in America, One Earth, and The Power
to Heal, produced by the Day in the Life staff. He was Director of Photography
of the book Baseball in America, published by Collins, and he edited the
Las Vegas book Planet Vegas for the same publisher. He has served on the
faculty of the Missouri University Photo Workshop, and the faculty of
the Jackson Hole workshop Photography at the Summit. He has also taught
Photojournalism as an extension course for the University of California,
Berkeley. In 1999, he was a judge of the 56th annual National Press Photographers
Ass’n Pictures of the Year competition, and has served as a judge
for the Western Magazine Publishers’ Maggie awards. In 1995 he was
named Director of Photography at Sunset magazine. |