Today’s the Day | William Albert Allard

Just a quick word that my new book WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD: Five Decades, a retrospective, is on sale in the stores starting today. This is a book of words as well as pictures; there are stories that appear in paragraphs on a page and stories that come to you from within the frame lines of a given image. William Albert Allard: Five Decades



THE SON OF A SWEDISH IMMIGRANT, William Albert Allard was born in 1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota.

Allard is a photographer of people. From the beginning of his illustrious career in 1964 as a National Geographic photographic intern, Allard has contributed to 42 Geographic articles as a staff, freelance, and contract photographer and writer. His stories for the magazine have included "Rodeos: Behind the Chutes," "India's Untouchables," Bohemian Rhapsody," and "Hutterite Sojourn." Today’s the Day | William Albert Allard – Blog