WASHINTON — SEPT 8: President Ford in his private office at the White House moments before signing the pardon of Richard Nixon Sept 8, 1974. Counsellor Robert Hartmann is with him. (David Hume Kennerly)
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David Hume Kennerly named University of Arizona’s First Presidential Scholar
Prolific political photographer David Hume Kennerly has been appointed as the first University of Arizona presidential scholar by President Robert Robbins, the school announced Tuesday.
Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize at 25 for his documentation of the Vietnam War and served as chief White House photographer for President Gerald Ford, among many other titles.
The unpaid, honorary appointment highlights the university’s drive to support the arts, humanities and social sciences, which are critical to success in the global economy, according to university officials.
Kennerly will work with the UA’s Center for Creative Photography, located on campus at 1030 N. Olive Road, to develop a series of lectures and events for students and the community that draw on his 60 years of experience.
David Hume Kennerly has photographed every president since Richard Nixon. Here are George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
“How wonderful for students to hear a lecture where David (Kennerly) is the one actually talking about the contextual history of his photographs,” said Anne Breckenridge Barrett, the center’s director.
His résumé includes capturing images from 12 presidential campaigns, every president since Richard Nixon, several wars and many other significant moments in history. He was close friends with world-renowned photographer Ansel Adams, who co-founded the UA center.
With this appointment, Robbins “is recognizing visual history as a key element in teaching where we’ve been as a country and society, where we are today and where we are heading,” Kennerly said in a statement prepared by the UA. “Pairing the Center for Creative Photography with the university’s courses in arts, social sciences and humanities will produce informative, entertaining and unique programming and lectures.”
President Gerald Ford prepares to take a picture of David Hume Kennerly, 27, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer in the White House Oval Office in Washington, Aug. 11, 1974. Ford named Kennerly as official White House photographer. Kennerly left his assignment with Time Magazine to replace Ollie Atkins in the post. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity)
“We’re thrilled at the center to have his partnership and contribution,” Barrett said.
“It’s a very good indicator of the university’s belief in the center and ability of visuals to connect us all.”
View Kennerly’s portfolio at kennerly.com
The original article written and released by Mikayla Mace of the Arizona Daily Star can be viewed here!
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WASHINGTON– SEPT 8:President Ford in Bill Timmon’s office at the White House moments after pardoning Richard Nixon, Sept. 8, 1974 (David Hume Kennerly)
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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.
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HISTORICAL FIGURES PHOTOGRAPHED
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • King Abdullah II of Jordan • Ansel Adams • Eddie Adams • Spiro Agnew • Hafez Al-Assad • Madeline Albright • Jason Alexander • Muhammad Ali • Samuel Alito • Richard Allen • John Anderson • Jennifer Aniston • Yasser Arafat • Neil Armstrong • John Ashcroftl • Les Aspin • Fred Astaire • Tariq Aziz • Joan Baez • Pearl Bailey • Howard Baker • James Baker III • Menachem Begin • Candice Bergen • Sandy Berger, NSC Director • Joseph Bernardin • Yogi Berra • Ali Bhutto • Joe Biden • Tony Blair • Joshua Bolten • Frank Borman • Erskine Bowles • Bill Bradley • James Brady • Tom Brady • John Brennan • William J. Brennan • Stephen Breyer • Leonid Brezhnev • Eli Broad • Jim Brown • Pat Buchanan • Warren Burger • Arthur Burns • George Burns • Richard Burton • Barbara Bush • George H.W. Bush • George W. Bush • Jeb Bush • Laura Bush • Earl Butz • Robert Byrd • Jane Byrne • Joseph Califano • James Callaghan • John Cappelletti • Andy Card • King Juan Carlos of Spain • Stokely Carmichael • Jose Carrares • Ben Carson • Jimmy Carter • William Casey • Fidel Castro • Nicolae Ceausescu • Suzy Chafee • Charles, Prince of Wales • Eddie Cheever • Dick Cheney • Lynne Cheney • Konstantin Chernenko • Jacques Chirac • Chris Christie • Warren Christopher • William Clark • Wesley Clark • Bill Clinton • Bill Cohen • William Colby • William Coleman • Charles Colson • John Connally • King Constantine II of Greece • Bill Cosby • Archibald Cox • Courtney Cox • Walter Cronkite • Ted Cruz • Jamie Lee Curtis • Robert Cushman • Bill Daley • Tom Daschle • Larry David • Miles Davis • Moshe Dayan • Michael Deaver • Miguel del la Madrid • Ron Dellums • Suleyman Demirel • George Deukmejian • John Deutch • John Doar • Anatoly Dobrynin • Bob Dole • Elizabeth Dole • Placido Domingo • Pham Van Dong • William O. Douglas • Julia Louis Dreyfus • Kenneth Duberstein • Lawrence Eagleburger • Clint Eastwood • John Edwards • Julie Eisenhower • Michael Eisner • Rahm Emanuel • Zhou Enlai • Sam Ervin • Ismail Fahmey • Mia Farrow • Martin Feldstein • Carly Fiorina • Leonard Firestone • Mary Fisher • Emerson Fittipaldi • Steve Forbes • Betty Ford • Gerald R. Ford • Abe Fortas • Vicente Fox • Francisco Franco • Tommy Franks • Malcolm Fraser • Joe Frazier • Dr. Bill Frist • Robert Gates • Richard Gebhard • Amin Gemayel • Hans-Dietrich Genscher • Ron Gettelfinger • Edmund Giambastiani • Edward Gierek • Newt Gingrich • Ruth BaderGinsburg • Valery Giscard d’Estaing • John Glenn • Arthur Goldberg • Barry Goldwater • Mikhail Gorbachev • Raisa Gorbachev • Al Gore • R.C. Gorman • Porter Goss • Billy Graham • Alan Greenspan • Andrei Gromyko • King Carl Gustav XVI of Sweden • Phillip Habib • Chuck Hagel • Alexander Haig • H.R. Bob Haldeman • Armand Hammer • Tonya Harding • Bryce Harlow • Mel Harris • George Harrison • Arthur Hartman • King Hassan II of Morocco • Orrin Hatch • Dennis Hatert • Mark Hatfield • Pavel Havel • Michael Hayden • Tom Hayden • Wayne Hays • Christie Hefner • Jesse Helms • Richard Helms • Margaux Hemingway • Emperor Hirohito of Japan • Gil Hodges • Dustin Hoffman • Bob Hope • Huell Howser • Mike Huckabee • E. Howard Hunt • Jon Huntsman • King Hussein of Jordan • Lee Iacocca • Julio Iglesias • Jesse Jackson • Kate Jackson • Michael Jackson • Mick Jagger • Leon Jaworski • Michel Jobert • Pope John Paul II • James Earl Jones • Quincy Jones • Hamilton Jordan • Michael Jordan • John Kasich • Ken Kaunda • Gene Kelly • Grace Kelly • Jack Kemp • Anthony Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy • Ethel Kennedy • John Kennedy, Jr. • Robert F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • Nancy Kerrigan • John Kerry • King Khalid of Saudi Arabia • Young-sam Kim • Henry Kissinger • Wayne Knight • Helmut Kohl • Ted Koppel • Tom Korologos • Lisa Kudrow • Nguyen Cao Ky • Mel Laird • Rod Laver • Patrick Leahy • Matt LeBlanc • Jack Lemmon • Jacob Lew • Carl Lewis • Joe Lewis • Patrick Lichfield • Joe Lieberman • John V. Lindsay • Joe Lockhart • Trent Lott • Jeff MacNelly • Norman Mailer • John Major • Makarios III • Fred Malek • David Mamet • Marcel Marceau • Ferdinand Marcos • Imelda Marcos • Thurgood Marshall • Steve Martin • John McCain • Gene McCarthy • Matthew McConaughey • Mike McCurry • Denis McDonough • Denny McLain • Mack McLarty • Edwin Meese • Zubin Mehta • Golda Meir • Nicholas Meyer • John Mitchell • Francois Mitterand • Walter Mondale • Thomas Moorer • Aldo Moro • Hosni Mubarak • Edmund Muskie • Carl Mydans • Richard Myers • Jim Nabors • Bob Nardelli • Gaafar Nimeiry • Paul Nitze • Richard Nixon • Lon Nol • Hideo Nomo • Sandra Day O’Conner • Paul O’Neill • Tip O’Neill • Ed O’Neill • Michelle Obama • Barack Obama • Aristotle Onassis • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Antonio Ordonez • Daniel Ortega • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi • Ian Paisley • Leon Panetta • Chung-hee Park • Rand Paul • Ron Paul • Luciano Pavarotti • Charles Percy • Shimon Peres • H. Ross Perot • Matthew Perry • Rick Perry • David Petraeus • Michelle Pfeiffer • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh • Kim Phuc • Lou Piniella • John Podesta • Pope Paul IV • Adam Clayton Powell • Colin Powell • Jody Powell • Lewis Powell • Billy Preston • Richard Pryor • Qaboos bin Said al Said • Dan Quayle • Queen Elizabeth II • Queen Noor of Jordan • Yitzak Rabin • Prince Rainier III of Monaco • Charles Rangel • Dixie Lee Ray • Ronald Reagan • Nancy Reagan • Don Regan • William Rehnquist • Mary Lou Retton • Condoleeza Rice • Michael Richarda • Tom Ridge • Richard Riordan • Elliot Rirchardson • John Roberts • Brooks Robinson • Nelson Rockefeller • David Rockerfeller • Hillary Rodham Clinton • Ginger Rogers • George Romney • Mitt Romney • Linda Ronstadt • Alice Roosevelt • Joe Rosenthal • Diana Ross • Karl Rove • Marco Rubio • Donald Rumsfeld • Meg Ryan • Nolan RyanPaul Ryan • Anwar Sadat • Khieu Samphan • Bernie Sanders • Susan Sarandon • Paul Sarbanes • Ekias Sarkis • Diane Sawyer • Antonin Scalia • James Schlesinger • Helmut Schmidt • Arnold Schwarzenegger • David Schwimmer • Brent Scowcroft • Tom Seaver • Jerry Seinfeld • Ravi Shankar • Ariel Sharon • Al Sharpton • Cybill Shepherd • Eduard Shevardnadze • Eunice Shriver • Maria Shriver • Julius Shulman • George ShultzNeil Simon • William Simon • O.J. Simpson • Frank Sinatra • John Sirica • Jean Kennedy Smith • Tom & Dick Smothers • David Souter • Giovanni Spadolini • Steven Spielberg • Kenneth Starr • James Stavridis • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Igor Stravinsky • Suharto • John Sununu • Kakuei Tanaka • Elizabeth Taylor • George Tenet • Margaret Thatcher • The Rolling Stones • The Supremes • Nguyen Van Thieu • Clarence Thomas • Fred Thompson • Strom Thurmond • Josip Broz Tito • Jeffrey Toobin • John Tower • Pierre Elliott Trudeau • Donald Trump • Stansfield Turner • Johnny Unitas • Cyrus Vance • Ben Vereen • John Vessey • Antonio Villaraigosa • Paul Volcker • Kurt Waldheim • Vernon Walters • James Webb • William Webster • Casper Weinberger • William Weld • Paul Wellstone • William Westmoreland • Byron White • Christine Todd Whitman • Ron Widen • Gahan Wilson • Harold Wilson • Natalie Wood • James Woolsey • Herman Wouk • Deng Xiaoping • Lee Kwan Yew • Jiang Zemin • Jiang Zimen • Zhou Ziyang
Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
On March 26, 2019 an exhibition of my photos will open at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is the first-ever show of my time as President Ford’s chief White House photographer and is a vivid comparison between then and how things are now. If you are old enough to remember that period, you know it was a dark time in America’s history.
On August 9th, 1974, Richard Nixon had just resigned in disgrace, the first and only president to do so. Along with the political crisis caused by Watergate, the economy was in recession, unemployment was through the roof, and the United States was still fighting a war in Vietnam. But there was a light at the end of that harrowing tunnel. His name was Gerald R. Ford. As Mr. Ford stepped forward under dire and extraordinary circumstances to accept the mantle of the Presidency, he told Americans hungry for straightforward and honest leadership, “our long national nightmare is over.”
That same night President Ford offered me the opportunity to be his chief presidential photographer, in effect tossing me the keys to the kingdom. He and Mrs. Ford allowed me unfettered upstairs, downstairs access to him, his family, and the inner workings of the White House. A new and transparent era was about to begin in American politics, and I had a front-row seat to document it for history.
I photographed every major event during Mr. Ford’s time in office. But the most important image that emerged from those thousands of photos was a close-up portrait of President Ford’s humanity. I saw a man who cared about people for who they were, not for what they appeared to be. I saw a President who was truthful, intelligent, forthright, and courageous, who was concerned about the welfare of the country, a person who was always loyal to his friends and those who worked for him. I saw a true leader and a great man.
All of those qualities were evident at one of the most personal, dramatic, and sad moments of Ford’s Presidency. Moments after President Ford publicly conceded the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter, his close personal aide Terry O’Donnell and I entered the oval office. We were the only ones in there. He put his arm around Terry, thanked him for his service, and asked if there was anything he could do for him. I had tears in my eyes as I photographed that moment. Here was a someone who just lost the biggest prize on earth but was unselfishly thinking about how to help another person. That’s just the way he was. That’s why I loved the guy.
Note: I personally selected all the photographs that will appear in the exhibition. Some have never been seen, and each in its own way reveals the man who worked so hard to heal our nation.