THE OTHER PERSON IN THE ROOM

Kennerly’s deep understanding of the forces shaping our world drove him to seek out opportunities to document history that others missed. Often he was the only person in the room other than participants themselves. His lists of exclusive situations or images include the end of the Vietnam War, Jonestown, Reagan and Gorbachev’s Fireside Summit, in the Pentagon’s secret video conferencing room with the Secretary of Defense during the Iraq war, with McCain the night he won the New Hampshire primary, election night 2000 with Bush and Cheney, the aftermath of 9/11 at the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to Abu Ghraib, the final episode of the television show Seinfeld and more. Kennerly’s collection includes portraits and behind-the-scenes documentation of hundreds of notable world figures, including every president since Richard Nixon, dozens of elections, congressional crises, wars, and a host of major national and international events. It also contains a vast but little-known collection of images chronicling American life, landscape and nature.