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David Hume Kennerly has been a photographer on the front lines of history for 55 years. He was the official White House photographer under President Gerald R. Ford and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. His winning portfolio included images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, refugees escaping from East Pakistan, and the Ali v. Frazier “Fight of the Century.”
He has photographed every American President since Lyndon B. Johnson and covered thirteen presidential campaigns. He was a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine for ten years, and a contributing photographer for Time & Life Magazines for more than fifteen. American Photo Magazine named Kennerly “One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography.”
Kennerly has published several books of his work, including Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, and David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone. He was also a major contributor to the CNN 2016 book, Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything. His exclusive portrait of President Trump is on the cover.
Kennerly was executive producer of The Spymasters, a 2015 CBS/Showtime documentary about the directors of the CIA. He also produced The Presidents’ Gatekeepers, a four-hour Discovery Channel film about White House chiefs of staff. Kennerly was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC’s, The Taking of Flight 847, and was the writer and executive producer of a two-hour NBC pilot filmed in Thailand, Shooter, starring Helen Hunt. Shooter was based on Kennerly’s Vietnam experiences, and he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography.
In 2015 Kennerly received the prestigious Lucie Award honoring the greatest achievement in photojournalism, and that same year delivered the commencement speech at Lake Erie College where he received an honorary doctorate. Kennerly is a Canon Explorer of Light, one of an elite group of photographers sponsored by Canon.
In 2019, The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography acquired the David Hume Kennerly Archive, which features almost one million images, prints, objects, memorabilia, correspondence, and documents. His work joins that of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon, W. Eugene Smith, and scores of other legendary photographers. University President Robert C. Robbins also appointed Kennerly the university’s first Presidential Scholar.
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David Hume Kennerly has been a photographer on the front lines of history for 55 years. He was the official White House photographer under President Gerald R. Ford and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. His winning portfolio included images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, refugees escaping from East Pakistan, and the Ali v. Frazier “Fight of the Century.”
He has photographed every American President since Lyndon B. Johnson and covered thirteen presidential campaigns. He was a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine for ten years, and a contributing photographer for Time & Life Magazines for more than fifteen. American Photo Magazine named Kennerly “One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography.”
Kennerly has published several books of his work, including Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, and David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone. He was also a major contributor to the CNN 2016 book, Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything. His exclusive portrait of President Trump is on the cover.
Kennerly was executive producer of The Spymasters, a 2015 CBS/Showtime documentary about the directors of the CIA. He also produced The Presidents’ Gatekeepers, a four-hour Discovery Channel film about White House chiefs of staff. Kennerly was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC’s, The Taking of Flight 847, and was the writer and executive producer of a two-hour NBC pilot filmed in Thailand, Shooter, starring Helen Hunt. Shooter was based on Kennerly’s Vietnam experiences, and he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography.
In 2015 Kennerly received the prestigious Lucie Award honoring the greatest achievement in photojournalism, and that same year delivered the commencement speech at Lake Erie College where he received an honorary doctorate. Kennerly is a Canon Explorer of Light, one of an elite group of photographers sponsored by Canon.
In 2019, The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography acquired the David Hume Kennerly Archive, which features almost one million images, prints, objects, memorabilia, correspondence, and documents. His work joins that of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon, W. Eugene Smith, and scores of other legendary photographers. University President Robert C. Robbins also appointed Kennerly the university’s first Presidential Scholar.
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