David Hume Kennerly
| David Hume Kennerly | |
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Kennerly in 2013
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| Chief Official White House Photographer | |
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In office 1974–1977 |
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| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Oliver F. Atkins |
| Succeeded by | Michael Evans |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
David Hume Kennerly March 9, 1947 Roseburg, Oregon, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) |
Susan Allwardt (m. 1967; div. 1969) Mel Harris (m. 1983; div. 1988) Carol Huston (m. 1989; div. 1992) Rebecca Soladay (m. 1994) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | O.A. "Tunney" Kennerly Joanne Hume Kennerly |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | West Linn High School |
| Occupation | Journalist, photographer, producer |
| Website | Kennerly.com |
David Hume Kennerly (born March 9, 1947) is an American photographer and photojournalist. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs taken of the Vietnam War, Cambodia, East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta, and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971. He has also photographed every American president since Richard Nixon.
Kennerly is the son of O.A. "Tunney" Kennerly, a traveling salesman, and the son of the sheriff of Klamath County, and Joanne Hume Kennerly, the daughter of a railroad engineer. His parents are deceased. He also has three younger sisters, Jane and Chris, the youngest, Anne, is also deceased. His interest in photography started when he was only 12, and his career began in Roseburg, where his first published picture was in the high school newspaper The Orange 'R in 1962. Kennerly graduated from West Linn High School outside of Portland, Oregon, in 1965. While there he worked on the school newspaper The Amplifier and the yearbook, Green and Gold. At 18, right out of high school, he became a staff photographer for The Oregon Journal, and later, after returning from basic and advanced training as a member of the Oregon National Guard, Oregonian, During his early career in Portland he photographed some major personalities, including Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, The Rolling Stones, and The Supremes. That encounter with Sen. Kennedy gave him the determination to become a national political photographer.
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