David Hume Kennerly
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David Hume Kennerly (born 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photographs of the Vietnam War.
His career began in Roseburg, Oregon, where his first published picture was in the Roseburg High School newspaper. He later worked for the Oregon Journal and eventually UPI.
Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1972 for his photographs of the Vietnam War. After the war, Kennerly returned to the United States working for Time magazine, and eventually serving as White House Photographer for Gerald Ford.
Kennerly continued to work as a photographer shooting projects for Newsweek, LIFE, Good Morning America , and George. Kennerly has photographed more than 35 covers for Time and Newsweek, and covered assignments in over 130 countries.
On March 16, 2006, Kennerly was named NBC News Contributing Editor. He will provide special still-photo essays for NBC and its affiliates.
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- "David Hume Kennerly", Photojournalism and the American Presidency, University of Texas.
