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DAVID HUME KENNERLY , EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES

David Hume Kennerly's photographic documentary of the Gerald R. Ford presidency, published by the Center for American History, The University of Texas, Austin. Visit David's web site for more info or click the play button below to see the You Tube video. Vanity Fair's December issue spotlights a photo of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan from this series in an article titled L.A. Noir, along with a slideshow.

JIM LO SCALZO, EVIDENCE OF MY EXISTENCE

Check it out -- more info at http://www.evidenceofmyexistence.com

Note: the new flash player has a security feature. It will ask you if it's safe to connect to Viddler.com, which is where Jim is hosting his movie. You can say OK and watch the video or click the URL link and go to the book promo site.

Dirck Halstead is one of America’s preeminent photojournalists, whose iconic images have graced more covers of Time magazine than any other photographer’s. From the battlefields of Vietnam to the halls of the White House to film sets around the world, Halstead’s sense of timing and eye for the revealing shot was unerring throughout his 50-year career. Among the 300 photographs in this collection are many that are instantly recognizable, such as Bill Clinton embracing Monica Lewinsky, or Nixon saluting with his famous V-for-victory sign. Others have become more resonant with the passage of time. Throughout, Halstead provides fast-paced, lively, and engaging accounts of his experiences in the field. A one-of-a-kind autobiography in words and pictures, MOMENTS IN TIME is a half-century of history seen through one photographer’s lens. Dirck Halstead’s photos have won every major prize in the industry, including the Robert Capa gold medal and two Eisies. He is currently a senior fellow in photojournalism at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, and he runs the award-winning webzine the Digital Journalist. Halstead lives in Austin, TX.

Congratulations to John Harrington on the publishing of his new book, BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. Thomson Course Technology www.courseptr.com

This three hundred and thirty page book is a text book of how to go about the business of being a professional photographer.

David Burnett on Harrington's book. "Well, it¹s about time that someone put together a map of how to operate in the photography business world. John is very knowledgeable about both photography and business... He knows what he's talking about, and this book should save a lot of bad deals from happening, and turn many of them into good deals."

"Picture This! -- the untold story and classic photos of United Press Newspictures"

The main theme in the UPI Newspictures story is that young photographers just starting a career in news photography were thrust upon the world's stage in a trial-by-fire test of their ability,stamina, and wits.Their daily skirmishes kept both UPI and AP photographers at their best, as they attempted to outshoot, outedit, or simply outhustle theother guy (there were no women in UPI or AP photo ranks in those days) to be first to get the best picture "on the wire" and transmit it to hundreds of publications around the world.News agency photographers were a breed apart from their newspaper counterparts who worked a regular schedule out of a central office, did little traveling, and who most times returned to their office where they got help processing and printed their pictures.For news agency shooters, a story in the field was more than just getting a good picture of an event. That was often the easy part.They then had to process their film, edit and make their own prints, and transmit them on the picture network.The effort and expense that went into getting the pictures we tookback to a place the film could be processed and transmitted could fill another half a book. We tried everything from homing pigeons to jet planes, and as the book describes, ended up transmitting out of some dramatic and less than dramatic places: 20th Century Fox Studios in Hollywood, a men's room in Atlanta.We tried to outshoot each other at every event, and in the process we all outshot the magazines at event after event. Life, and Look, and especially Time and Newsweek, often used UPI photos credited only to UPI, even though they had their own staff or nonstaff "stringers" on the scene.We all had heady experiences both in front of and behind the camera, difficult to describe to anyone who wasn't a part of it. Traveling with Presidents, getting shot at by people who didn't even know us. Seeing your picture in dozens of of the world's newspapers. But during my own 11 UPI years, when the annual list of "top ten" stories appeared, I'd covered seven or eight of them.

"Picture This! -- the untold story and classic photos of United Press Newspictures" tells the story of that fierce competition between AP and UP photographers, and reveals how UPI often ran circles around and induced constant heartburn over at their rival AP for more than 30 years.Bill Gates now owns all of UPI's photographs, stored in a Pennsylvania cave by his wholly-owned company, Corbis. He graciously allowed unlimited access to the 11.5-million UPI picture trove, and "Picture This" contains more than 200 examples covering the spectrum of news photography news, sports, features, wars. Thousands of photos were considered and the final choice is a hihgly subjective one -- the photo first, and the magnitude of the event second.In the news photo business, the caption is our "soundtrack" that tunes a reader to the right frequency to accept the visual information he/she is seeing. A photo of a Coast Guardsman walking out of the surf carrying a child is revolting if the caption says "the child died" but is an inspiration if it says "after he nearly drowned, thanks to brave rescuers, little Johnny fully recovered...

"Expanded, all-new captions in "Picture This!" enlighten and in many cases, entertain. Many are lighthearted and even irreverent, but all of them tell you not only about the picture, but explain today the relevance of so many significant "yesterdays."The book was a 3-year labor of love, atribute to my old UPI colleagues, many of whom helped with the book, which turned out to be far better than I ever could have anticipated or hoped, thanks to brilliant designer David Milne, a close friend and former Phila.Inquirer colleague, even if he is from Scotland and thinks haggis is tasty. Thanks to David, ours is not just another collection of old pictures. I selected the pictures for their "got your attention" quality and then wrote new captions.And I wanted to get it done before we read any more obits, as a tribute to all my fellow UPI shooters and editors. Everybody I contacted in this three-year process, including Walter Cronkite, who wrote the Foreword for this book, feels as I do -- that looking back after a successful career, UPI offered us all what was perhaps the most rewarding professional experience of
our lives.

“I couldn’t help thinking if aliens ever landed on Earth and you only had a few hours to help them understand America, all you would have to do is take them to any state fair. For me, a state fair is a microcosm of America--in all its glory and weirdness—at any given point in time.”

From prize winning pigs to corn dog-eating contests, from beauty queens to marching bands, from gravity defying midway rides to miracle machines for back pain, from butter sculptures to demolition derbies, state fairs are a mother lode of pure Americana.

State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace’s photographic odyssey through fairs in ten states – California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. Time and again, regardless of geographical location, Grace’s images deftly capture with remarkable authenticity the strange mixture of the traditional, the kitsch, and the off-the-wall that is unique to these annual gatherings, which began as a celebration of rural American life and have evolved into super-sized extravaganzas. Sure to bring back vivid memories for anyone who’s ever attended a state fair, and bound to entice the uninitiated.

State Fair will be released April, 2006. ISBN 0-292-71287-1 $34.95 hardcover 9 ½ x 9 ½ in. 128 pp. 96 duotone photos.

Arthur Grace is a former staff photographer for Newsweek magazine. Throughout his award-winning career, his photographs have appeared in magazines worldwide, including on the covers of Life, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, and Stern. He has published two previous books, Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race and Comedians. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Debra.

The University of Texas Press is proud to publish a top photojournalist’s odyssey through fairs in ten states. For more information, to schedule an interview or to request an event, please contact Gianna La Morte at (512) 232-7634 or gianna@utpress.ppb.utexas.edu

WWII Memorial: JEWEL OF THE MALL
by Stephen R. Brown documents the creation of the National World War II memorial, and features a behind-the-scenes look at the creation and installation of massive sculpture by Raymond Kaskey.

The Capitol- See it again for the first time- LOOKING UP by Marty LaVor (Scroll down for info on LaVor's Washington, Looking Up)

"PLEBE SUMMER AT THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY" Photographs by Pete Souza.
Pete Souza is the national photographer for the Chicago Tribune, based in their Washington bureau. Since joining the Tribune in 1998, Souza has covered events in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, as well as the presidential campaign of 2000 and the impeachment saga in 1998. Souza previously worked as a freelancer for nine years in Washington (1989-1998). He has photographed two articles on assignment for National Geographic Magazine and three photo essays for Life Magazine. His photographs have also been published in many other magazines and newspapers around the world. Souza was an Official White House Photographer for President Ronald Reagan. He joined the White House staff in June 1983, and worked there until Reagan's last day as president. In 1992 Souza produced and published "Unguarded Moments: Behind-the-Scenes Photographs of President Reagan," a coffee-table book based on his 5 1/2 years inthe White House. Former Sen. Howard Baker Jr. said in his introduction to the book that Souza recorded "some of the most intimate, honest and humanizing scenes of the presidency I've ever seen." His latest book, "Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy," was just published (May 2003). The book chronicles one company of incoming midshipmen through the six-week indoctrination period of Plebe Summer. 64 pages, with 53 black & white photographs, softcover. Designed by Jennifer C. Christiansen $18.00 includes shipping costs (VA residents, please add $0.67 for state tax)

Additional photographs by Souza and excerpts from his books may be viewed at http://www.petesouza.com

Public & Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency by Diana Walker; 200 pages; National Geographic Society; October, 2002

Washington: see it again for the first time -- Looking Up by Marty LaVor; 156 pages, LaVor Group; September 2002

Unguarded Moments: Behind-The-Scenes Photographs of President Ronald Reagan by Pete Souza, Howard H. Baker Jr. Summit Pub Group; ISBN: 1565300246