Presidents Photographer : Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office

English

ISBN: 1426206763

EAN: 9781426206764

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State/Political Science / General/History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)/Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits/Photography / Photojournalism/

Publisher: National Geographic Society

Release Date: 11/02/2010

Synopsis: The Presidents Photographer gives everyday people a sneak peek into life at the chief executives side--providing a rare and intriguing glimpse of White House inhabitants and the professionals who capture their images. Intriguing photos transport readers into the life of President Obama, from breakfast with Michelle and the girls, to tense meetings with third-world dictators, and dazzling formal events. We are treated to an insiders view of previous administrations as well, beginning with the Kennedy years and the first official photographer in 1962. Author John Bredar also takes us behind the lens, into the often surprising world of the photographers themselves. The Presidents Photographer complements the National Geographic television special that focuses on current White House photographer Pete Souza, detailing a week in his life as he covers Washington events and Obamas trip to receive the Nobel Prize in November 2009. The book covers this and much more, taking a deeper look at 20th-century history and the White House photographers who chronicled it. Engaging chapters reveal the entwined relationships of photographers and presidents, from the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam to Monica Lewinsky and 9/11. We examine the growing importance of the photographers role in keeping the president close to the American people as the press is kept at arms length...and the transition from film to digital as it has affected the photographers work. A White House lensman sent out 2-3 photos a week in the 1960s--whereas Souza currently sends out 50 every day. Anecdotes reveal the pain and pressure of the photographers job. We witness the travails of Yoichi Okamoto, who was fired (temporarily) over Lyndon Johnsons jealousy that Okamoto was profiled in Time magazine and he was not. The travels of David Hume Kennerly, so trusted that Gerald Ford made him an ambassador to South Vietnam in 1975. And the career of David Valdez, George W. Bushs confidante and fishing buddy.

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Presidents Photographer : Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.98 inches

Width: 10.39 inches

Length: 8.27 inches

Weight: 40.32 oz

Pages: 256