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June 10, 2008
David Hume Kennerly
Canon Explorer of Light
NOTE: Due to an emergency health matter Vincent Laforet will not be able to make this scheduled presentation. However, we are extremely pleased
that David Hume Kennerly has graciously agreed to step in. That said we are lucky enough to have exchanged one world-class, globe trotting, award winning photo
journalist for another. Our thanks to David, Canon, and of course our best wishes to Vince for a speedy and complete recovery!
David Hume Kennerly, a contributor for NBC News, has been shooting on the front lines of history for four decades. He has photographed eight
wars, seven U.S. presidents, and has traveled to more than 140 countries along the way. He is an authentic global photographer, as much in his element in the
desert covering combat as he is capturing dramatic and intimate behind-the-scenes photos of the world’s leaders. He never gives up on his quest to capture the
“decisive moment.”
Kennerly was recently named, “One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine, and last year was
selected as the 2007, “Photography Person of the Year,” by Photo Media Magazine.
At age 25 Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War. At 27 he was President Gerald R. Ford’s personal photographer,
the youngest in U.S. history. He has also won the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad,” for his coverage of
Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev’s momentous summit meeting in Geneva. He has also won two first prizes in the World Press contest for his dramatic and powerful
photos of the war Cambodia just before it fell to the Khmer Rouge.
He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC’s, “The Taking of Flight 847,” and was writer and Executive Producer of a two-hour
NBC pilot, “Shooter,” starring Helen Hunt, based on his Vietnam experiences. “Shooter” won the Emmy for “Outstanding Cinematography.” He is executive producer of the
recent short documentary, “Portraits of a Lady,” starring former Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, which made the short list of films eligible for the 2008 Academy Award
nominations
He has also been a contributor for Time, Life, and John F. Kennedy, Jr’s George magazine, and was a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine for ten years.
He has more than 50 major magazine covers to his credit, including photos of Gerald Ford, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jonestown,
Ansel Adams, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and many others.
Mark your calendars today and please join us. Prepare yourself for a not to be missed entertaining, inspirational, and educational
evening!
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10 June 2008
Social hour: 6-7
Meeting: 7
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ASMP-MSP Members: Free
Students w/id: Free
Non-Members: $5
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Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Auditorium 150
2501 Stevens Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN. 55405
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© David Hume Kennerly 2000/Presidential Candidate Senator John McCain on "The Straight Talk Express" |
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