Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fred Maroon (Leica Shooter) Has a book out "The Nixon Years". All his own negs shot during that "Water Gate" Thing. He was smart, got in the door and worked on his own and now he reaps the profits and the tax payers didn't foot the bill. Cheers Wilber Bmceowen@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/19/00 7:35:21 AM, austin@darkroom.com writes: > > << I guess I'm paying for this 'personal service', right? >> > > There's a long history of photographers in the White House -- usually for the > president but it's a fairly sizeable staff. Many of us remember David Hume > Kennerly's job as personal photographer to Gerald Ford -- he got > unprecedented access to personal moments with the Fords when their guard was > down. He was sort of a hero of photojournalists for awhile. He wrote a book > about his career following that assignment -- "Shooter" I believe it was > called. I'm sure with Gore running for president it's not a big stretch to > assign one of the White House pool to him full time . . . > > Bob (enjoys presidential photography) McEowen