"BEHIND THE SCENES OF HISTORY"

With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer
David Hume Kennerly
Thursday, September 3rd, 6:30pm

The Annenberg Space for Photography is proud to present the 6th speaker in our POYi IRIS Nights lecture series; the esteemed David Hume Kennerly. Kennerly has been on the front lines of history for four decades. His presentation, "BEHIND THE SCENES OF HISTORY," illustrated with his photographs, will focus on the events that he has covered as a photojournalist, from the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy, to the war in Vietnam, the resignation of president Nixon and vice president Agnew, his subsequent role as the chief White House photographer for President Ford, Reagan's Fireside Summit with Gorbachev, right through the Inauguration of Barack Obama and much more. James Earle Jones said that "Kennerly is like Forrest Gump, except that he was really there."

David Hume Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War. Two years later he was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's personal photographer. He was recently named, "One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography" by American Photo Magazine. He was a contributing editor for Newsweek, and a contributing photographer for Time and Life magazines. Kennerly has published several books of his work, Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, and most recently, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He is a producer and one of the principle photographers of Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book.

Kennerly received a Primetime Emmy Best Picture nomination as executive producer of, "The Taking of Flight 943: The Uli Derickson Story," and a documentary he executive produced, "Portraits of a Lady," made the short list of documentary films considered for the 2008 Academy Awards. Kennerly is on the Board of Trustees of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, and the Atlanta Board of Visitors of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). His archive is housed at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, Austin.

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