TCF Ep. 578 - David Hume Kennerly

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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David Hume Kennerly has been a photographer on the front lines of history for more than fifty years. At 25 he was one of the youngest winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Kennerly’s 1972 award for Feature Photography included images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, refugees escaping from East Pakistan into India, and the Ali v. Frazier “Fight of the Century” World Heavyweight Championship at Madison Square Garden. Two years later Kennerly was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's Personal White House Photographer. Websites David Hume Kennerly Carol Guzy Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Curious Society Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Become a Patron! Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club.
0:13.5	Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography, charcoal selects and delivers essential photo books to a worldwide community of collectors.
0:23.9	Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to their collections.
0:31.8	Join the club by visiting charcoal book club.com and use the promo code the Candid Frame at checkout
0:39.3	and receive a 10% discount on your first membership payment.
0:47.3	I aspired to be a photojournalist in my younger days.
0:51.3	Beyond making photographs, I was most fascinated by the access that the camera
0:57.4	could provide. Doors that normally were closed were opened as a result of the camera and a little
1:03.8	bit of curiosity. The best of these photographers leveraged that and bore witness to some of the
1:10.0	most important events in our lifetimes.
1:12.6	David Hume-Kennelay has been doing that for decades.
1:15.6	The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was a war correspondent in Vietnam,
1:20.6	a White House photographer during the Ford administration,
1:23.6	and has photographed countless iconic moments, both in politics and in sports.
1:29.4	He has earned his reputation as a legendary photographer, and I'm honored to share our conversation
1:36.2	with you.
1:38.0	This is Eibody and X, and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
1:47.3	I just noted that today was the 50th anniversary of me escaping death during the India-Pakistan
1:57.5	War in 1971. The war lasted, David Burnett and I were both there. It lasted less
2:04.8	than two weeks and like 12,000 soldiers on both sides were killed, which doesn't seem like anything
2:11.6	these days with the COVID statistics. But on this particular day, and I had it written in a notebook,
2:19.8	we were under attack by a Pakistani machine gun position, and I was running alongside this
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