JOAN BROOKBANK
PREVIOUS WORKSHOP
Finding Your Audience: An Introduction to Marketing Your Photographs
(Guest Speaker)
Joan Brookbank is a literary agent and book publishing adviser. She is the director of Joan Brookbank Projects, an agency representing and advising writers and visual artists. She is also a producer of special projects, including a museum exhibition tour. She previously served as head of U.S. operations for French, British and Swiss companies, including the Centre d’exportation du livre français (CELF, a French book publishers’ consortium) and the art book publisher Merrell. Her extensive book publishing experience ranges from sales, marketing, and distribution, to editorial acquisitions, project development, and list building.
She has negotiated myriad contracts for a range of projects, including adult and children’s books; translation rights; speaking engagements; image licensing; paper goods (from journals to notecards and decks); museum, gallery and other institutional co-editions; and museum exhibitions.
Her agency has placed titles with a wide range of publishers, from Abrams to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Published works represented by Joan Brookbank Projects include The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago by Judy Chicago, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem (Thames & Hudson); The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams (Nation Books); The Wall of Birds by Jane Kim and Thayer Walker (HarperDesign); and Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science by Aubrey Clayton (Columbia University Press). Forthcoming titles include, among others, adult and children’s books by writer/photographer Traer Scott, and adult and children’s books by historian Yohuru Williams (founder of the Racial Justice Initiative).
