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Archives for May 2017

2016: A Campaign Like No Other

May 11, 2017 By David Hume Kennerly

I have photographed every presidential campaign since 1968.  Twelve of them.  The only one I didn’t cover was the election of 1972 when I was in Vietnam photographing the war. [Click below to view my Pulitzer Prize Portfolio, which includes many photos from Vietnam]

NEW YORK -- APRIL 14: Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debating at CNN Brooklyn Navy Yard Democratic Debate, New York, New York, April 14, 2016. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/GettyImages)

My fifty years of coverage doesn’t make me an expert on the presidential selection process, but it does give me a singular frame of reference. Through my camera, I’ve spotted success and failure from every angle.  I’ve documented candidates who were considered inevitable, those who seemed to appear out of nowhere and everyone in between. I’ve found that certain campaigns had their own personalities and others trudged along with a dreary sort of resignation.

However, through all those campaigns – the thousands of rallies and town hall meetings, the hundreds of victory and concession speeches, the dozens of conventions and inaugurations, I can safely say that neither I nor anyone else has ever seen anything like the Great Presidential Melee of 2016.

GREEN BAY -- OCT 17: Singer Anastasia Lee waits to sing the National Anthem at the start of a Trump campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 17, 2016. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/GettyImages)

My coverage started in the primary season with Hillary v. Sanders, and Trump v. Everyone Else. And, of course, the unlikely winner and current president is Donald J. Trump.  My coverage swung from 2015 where I photographed all the candidates individually, all the way through to the home stretch. I was on the Hillary Clinton plane when she first got word of FBI Director Comey’s shattering announcement about reopening the email investigation, then spent the last few days heading toward the finish line with Trump. I was in the ballroom in New York City where most people were anticipating a concession, but instead ended up with a Trump victory speech.

I’ve chosen a small sample of my Campaign 2016 photos for this gallery.  The entire collection will reside in my archive along with the rest of my campaign and political photography. Together, these collections provide a half-century continuum of images that document the peaceful transfer of power in our country. I am grateful to have taken this wild ride and am even more grateful to be able to share this collection and the entire archive with those interested in taking a close-up look at how America has chosen its leaders.

Kennerly Archive Project
Pulitzer Prize Portfolio

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2016, Blog, Clinton, Election, Sanders, Trump

News from the David Hume Kennerly Archive

May 4, 2017 By Rebecca Kennerly

Kennerly Archive

This month marks the two-year anniversary of our full-time push to turn David’s extraordinary collection of images documenting 50 years of American and world history and culture in to a living archive.  My husband, David and I, made the commitment in May of 2015 to focus our full attention and resources to this mammoth project.  We hired the incomparable archivist, Randa Cardwell to help guide the project and together we have turned this spectacular collection into an archive that tells the story of a generation.

But even though we launched the project officially, David and I have worked at gathering and organizing the historic contents of his life’s work for nearly two decades. This project has been all-consuming, rewarding and powerful.  We have unearthed many clues about who we are as a generation and how we got to where we are today.  David and I are excited that these wonderful photographs and treasures might soon be available to future generations for study, research and appreciation.

While this project has been fantastically rewarding, it has also been difficult and expensive.  To help fund our work, we created a portfolio of the eleven images that comprised his 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Feature Photography.  These images had never been able to be presented together before now.  In fact, the portfolio only exists today because of the work we’ve done on the archive.

David Kennerly

Since the portfolio was made possible by the Archive Project work, we decided to set aside the first ten portfolios in the edition of 50 to help fund the completion of this important project.  Only three remain for purchase and they are only available through this private offering.

Please contact me for more information about acquiring the David Hume Kennerly Pulitzer Prize Portfolio and helping us complete this important project.

View Pulitzer Portfolio

Filed Under: Blog, Kennerly Archive Project

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