Nicholas Callaway (b. ) is an app producer, book publisher, television producer, writer and

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. Callaway is the founder and CEO of

Callaway Arts & Entertainment Callaway Arts & Entertainment is a company based in New York founded by Nicholas Callaway. It specializes in the design, production, and publication of illustrated books and multimedia products. The company is known for producing books by Madonna, ...

, a company that publishes illustrated books, mobile applications, computer-animated television series, and "branded lifestyle products". The company's book publishing division, Callaway Editions, specializes in the design, production and publication of high-quality illustrated books on the arts, design, fashion and photography. Titles include: ''

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: Photographs & Writings'', ''

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'' ’s ''One Hundred Flowers'',

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’s ''Passage'', '

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' ’s ''

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'', ''Diana: Portrait of A Princess'', ''The Art of Make-Up'' by

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, ''A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and its Aftermath'', a series of children's books by Madonna beginning with ''The English Roses'', the Callaway Classics series of

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, and ''OBAMA: The Historic Journey'', co-published with ''The New York Times''. In 2012, he co-founded and was the CEO, then Chairman of Happy Studio, a company for the development of "lifestyle apps" for Apple's iOS devices, with headquarters on

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in New York City.Prnewswire.co
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on June 21, 2012. In August 2010, with an investment from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers, Callaway founded Callaway Digital Arts (CDA), which publishes children’s applications for Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and

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family of products. All of CDA’s apps have risen to No. 1 in their category in the App Store, including ''Miss Spider’s Tea Party'', ''Miss Spider’s Bedtime Story'', Sesame Street’s ''The Monster at the End of This Book'' and ''Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue'', and the early learning literacy and numeracy series, ''Endless Alphabet''. In 1994, Callaway published '' Miss Spider's Tea Party'' by

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, which has sold 5 million copies worldwide. Subsequently, Nicholas Callaway and David Kirk founded Callaway & Kirk Company LLC, which is dedicated exclusively to the creations of David Kirk. Other products include: more than seventy Miss Spider titles; the CGI Nova the Robot book series; the Sunny Patch line of children's lifestyle products featured at

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stores for 7 years and subsequently acquired by the educational toy company Melissa & Doug; and ''

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'', sometimes shortened to ''Sunny Patch'', is a CGI-animated children's television series produced by Nelvana in association with AbsoluteDigital Pictures and Callaway Arts & Entertainment as a follow-up to ' ...

'', a 3-D computer-animated television series that has aired on

Nick Jr. Nick Jr. (known on-air as the Nick Jr. Channel) is an American pay television channel spun off from Nickelodeon's long-running programming block of the same name. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Gr ...

in the US and in many other countries around the world since its debut in 2005. Nicholas Callaway graduated from

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in 1975 with degrees in Classics and Fine Arts; he studied with

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and

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. He undertook early fine art photography and design studies at

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with the founder of ''

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'', Minor White, with designer

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, and with portrait photographer Wendy Snyder McNeil. From 1977 to 1979 Callaway was the first director of Galerie Zabriskie in Paris, where he curated and mounted many notable photography exhibitions, (many for the first time in Europe) including Harry Callahan,

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as cap ...

Eugène Atget Eugène Atget (; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French ''flâneur'' and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to mod ...

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, William Klein,

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and others. His final exhibition, ''French Avant Garde Photography Between the Wars'', rediscovered for the first time photographers including

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Dora Maar Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. A romantic partner of Pablo Picasso, Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his ''Portr ...

Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portr ...

Eli Lotar Eli Lotar (born Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu; January 30, 1905 – May 10, 1969) was a French photographer and cinematographer. Lotar was born in Paris, the son of Tudor Arghezi, a Romanian poet, and Constanța Zissu, a teacher. http://www.ziarul ...

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, Roger Parry,

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, Jean Moral and Moï-Ver. Callaway's photographs and writings have been published in ''

'' (cover of ''Octave of Prayer'', 1972 and ''Celebrations'', 1975), ''Departures'' magazine and '' Vanity Fair''. He is a member of the Callaway family that founded Callaway Plantation whose modern-day enterprises include

Callaway Gardens Callaway Resort & Gardens is a resort complex located near Pine Mountain in Harris County, Georgia, from LaGrange, Georgia. The world's largest azalea garden, this destination draws over 750,000 visitors annually. Callaway Gardens was ranked ...

Callaway Golf Company Callaway, legally Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., is an American global sports equipment manufacturing company that designs, manufactures, markets and sells golf equipment, more specifically clubs and balls, also including accessories such as b ...

and

Callaway Cars Callaway Cars Inc. is an American specialty vehicle manufacturer and engineering company that designs, develops, and manufactures high-performance product packages for cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs. They specialize in Corvettes and GM vehicles. ...

References

External links

Official website

CNN Sunday Morning aired September 14, 2003
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