David Hume Kennerly

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David Hume Kennerly (born March 9, 1947) is an American photographer and photojournalist.

He was a winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his collection of photographs of the Vietnam War, Cambodia, East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta, and the Ali-Frazier war in Madison Square Garden.

Since Richard Nixon, he has also photographed every American president since Richard Nixon.

Early life

Kennerly is O.A.'s son. Kennerly, a traveling salesman, and Joanne Hume Kennerly write jointly, "Tunney" Kennerly. His parents are deceased. Jane and Chris, his youngest sister, is also deceased, and Anne, his youngest sister, Anne. He began studying photography at the age of 12, and his career began in Roseburg, where his first published photograph appeared in the high school newspaper The Orange 'R in 1962. Kennerly graduated from West Linn High School in West Linn, Oregon, in 1965. He attended Portland State College for a brief time, but then had to leave at 19 to work as a staff photographer for The Oregon Journal. In 1967, he joined the Oregon National Guard and was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, for basic instruction and later advanced training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He was recruited by The Oregonian after six months of active service in the US Army. He shot several famous celebrities, including Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the Rolling Stones, and the Supremes during his time in Portland, including Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Supremes. Senator Kennedy's visit made him determined to become a national political photographer.

Kennerly began in late 1967 to Los Angeles to work as a staff photographer for United Press International (UPI). He took some of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's last photos at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, a few of his last images of him. The assassin Sirhan Sirhan shot Kennedy moments later. Ethel Kennedy was also captured in the back of an ambulance by Kennerly on Friday night. Kennerly retired to New York for UPI in 1969, where he shot the "Miracle" New York Mets wining the 1969 World Series in addition to several other positions.

Kennerly was transferred to the UPI's Washington, D.C. bureau in early 1970. He took his first ride on Air Force One with President Nixon as a member of the traveling press pool at age 23. However, Kennerly believed he was missing out on the most important story of his lifetime, the Vietnam War. "I felt like the scene in Mr. Roberts, where Henry Fonda, an officer on a supply ship, watched the destroyers sail into battle while stranded in some South Pacific backwater port," he said.

Kennerly was sent by UPI as a war photographer in early 1971. Larry DeSantis, an unnoticed photo editor in Kennerly, began a collection of his top Kennerly images of the year, beginning with the Ali-Frazier battle photo that appeared on The New York Times front page on March 9, 1971, (and also Kennerly's 24th birthday). DeSantis submitted the photograph along with images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars and refugees fleeing from East Pakistan to India for consideration in the Pulitzer Prize Board. Kennerly, who was still in Vietnam, was only when the winners were announced that they had been given the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. He "specialized in photographs that capture the loneliness and desolation of war," the committee noted.

Kennerly was appointed the head of UPI Southeast Asia's photo bureau, but the majority of his time was spent in the field reporting combat operations. In September 1972, he was one of three Americans to fly to the People's Republic of China to cover Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's state visit. He photographed Premier Zhou Enlai, one of the most influential Chinese leaders in modern history, on this assignment.

When he was still in Vietnam, he began working as a freelance photographer in November 1972. Kennerly stayed on as a staff photographer for Time after the iconic picture journal dissolved a few weeks later. The last American prisoner of war released in Hanoi, March 30, 1973, was one of the many stories he covered while in Asia.

Kennerly returned to Time in the summer of 1973, right in the middle of the Watergate story. He documented Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignal and the selection of Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Agnew's replacement. It was also Ford's first appearance on the front of Time, Kennerly's first Time cover was of congressman Ford, a photo he took the day before Nixon selected Ford. That talk with Ford resulted in a close personal relationship between him and his family. Since Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974, the new president nominated him to be his Chief Official White House Photographer. Kennerly was only the third civilian to have served in that capacity (before him, was President Lyndon B. Johnson's photographer Yoichi Okamoto, and Nixon's photographer Oliver F. Atkins).

Kennerly enjoyed unprecedented success during Ford's time as president, shooting major meetings, events, and trips during the campaign. During that time, he also obtained unique access for photographic employees from magazines, newspapers, and wire service. More than 50 photographers were granted exclusive access to President Ford. Before or since, there had never been a way for outside photographers to a president. It was one of Kennerly's finest achievements. Four other photographers divided coverage of the First Lady and Vice President as well as presidential duties, according to his staff. He also directed the White House photo lab, which was also part of the White House Communications Agency. Kennerly's White House photographs and negatives are on display at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the campus of Ford's alma mater, the University of Michigan. Several of his photographs are also on display at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Kennerly was sent by US Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand in late March 1975 to assess what was rapidly devolving military conditions in South Vietnam. Kennerly, the president told Kennerly that he wanted his opinion of what was going on. "I knew David wouldn't try to give me any information about 'enemy body counts' or "light at the end of the tunnel," Ford wrote in his autobiography.' The North Vietnamese had fired him several times. As an American, he was worried that we weren't doing more to help a loyal friend, and I bet that if I saw the pictures he took of the suffering there, I'd have a better idea of what we should do." Kennerly travelled around the region and escaped from Nha Trang before it fell to the advancing communists at Cam Ranh Bay, where it was shot and killed. Thousands of South Vietnamese troops were shot and killed, and the army was landed under fire in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a brief visit and analysis of the situation. Both Weyand's and Kennerly's thoughts were bleak when he returned from holiday. The President ordered that Kennerly's vivid black-and-white photographs of the shooting be posted in the West Wing of the White House to warn the workers how bad it was. Saigon was born a month later. Ford had ordered the evacuation of the last Americans and many Vietnamese who had been stationed in the United States before the fall. Kennerly's photographs were able to convince Ford to welcome tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees into the country.

Kennerly led Betty Ford around the West Wing on the day before the Fords were handing over the keys to the White House to incoming President Jimmy Carter. They stroded the packed Cabinet Room, and a mischievous look came across her face. "I've always wanted to dance on the Cabinet Room table," she said. Martha Graham's old dancer took off her shoes, jumped up to the middle of the table, and struck a pose. The photo was released for the first time 15 years after he took it in Kennerly's book Photo Op.

There was no official White House photographer during Carter's term, in part because Carter did not like Kennerly's high public profile during Ford's administration. Kennerly, who was 27 years old at the time and single, dated several high-profile women, including actress Candice Bergen and Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee, and was often mentioned in gossip columns on popular television.

Kennerly returned to Time magazine, where he covered some of the best stories of the 1970s and 1980s; Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel; and a number of other international news; the Fireside Summit in Geneva in 1985; and many others. As Life made a brief appearance in 1991 during the Desert Storm, he shot Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, "Men of War" came to a close.

Kennerly began as a contributing editor for Newsweek in 1996, where he covered President Bill Clinton, Senator Bob Dole, the impeachment trials, special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon, and other top news. Kennerly also had a deal with John F. Kennedy Jr.'s magazine George.

Kennerly was first assigned to cover the 2000 presidential election campaigns while still working for Newsweek, first covering Senator John McCain's candidacy until his resignation on March 9, 2000. Kennerly and Governor George W. Bush were at the Governor's Mansion in Austin on November 7, after Vice President Al Gore first conceded the election and later recanted. Kennerly has covered every presidential campaign from 1968 to 2020, with the exception of 1972, when he was in Vietnam.

Kennerly has shot more than 35 covers for Time and Newsweek, as well as reports in more than 130 countries throughout his journalism career.

Kennerly was a fellow of the American Film Institute's directing program from 1984 to 1986. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award as the executive producer of NBC's The Taking of Flight 847, and he was the writer and executive producer of a two-hour NBC pilot, Shooter, based on Helen Hunt's Vietnam experiences. The Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography was awarded to the shooter. He was executive producer of the Academy Award short-listed documentary Portraits of a Lady for HBO, directed by Neil Leifer and starring former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Kennerly worked on a documentary The Presidents' Gatekeepers, a four-hour Discovery Channel documentary about the White House chiefs of staff, along with Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Gedeon Naudet, Jules Naudet, and producer Chris Whipple in 2013. The team teamed up again in 2015 to produce The Spymasters, a CBS/Showtime documentary about the CIA's directors.

Kennerly covered the presidential election for CNN in 2016, and picked President Donald Trump for the front of their book Unprecedented. It was "the worst cover photo of me," Trump said. Despite the fact that he had told Kennerly that he liked it when he saw it in the back of the camera at the time, he continued to enjoy it.

Kennerly is a regular public speaker and has appeared at TEDx, RootsTech, the University of Arizona, and a slew of corporate functions.

Kennerly has also worked as a freelance photographer, and Bank of America has been his main client for the past ten years. Kennerly photographed a campaign for the Girl Scouts of the United States in 2010 that included new photographs for the outside of the Girl Scout cookie boxes, as well as old photographs from the inside of the Girl Scout cookie boxes, which were on display for more than ten years.

Kennerly was named as the University of Arizona's first presidential scholar in October 2018. "The photographs taken by David Hume Kennerly depict some of the most significant events in history over the last 60 years, and they have changed how many generations have viewed the world." David is honoured to share his knowledge with our students and the local community.

The David Hume Kennerly Archive, the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography (CCP), reported the acquisition of the David Hume Kennerly Archive, which contains more than one million images, prints, furniture, memorabilia, correspondence, and documents dating back to 1957. "Adding the Kennerly Archive to our collection helps the Center to connect Kennerly's work to the photographic archives we house," CCP director Anne Breckenridge Barrett said. It's a vital piece to the Center's commitment to expanding the field of photography in today's society."

Kennerly and Ansel Adams, one of the CCP's co-founders, were among the decades-long friendship. Adams was first introduced to the White House by Kennerly, who invited him to visit President Ford in 1975. Kennerly photographed Adams for the front of Time in 1979, the first time a photographer was included on the magazine's cover.

From 1967 to 1989, actress Mel Harris from 1983 to 1989, actress Rebecca Soladay from 1994 to 1991.

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