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Eric Draper talked about his experience documenting White House activities, presidential travel, and major events including the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mr. Draper was chief ph…

Lawrence Schiller talked about the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of dozens of images that chronicle the life of President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy was born on May 29…

Cheryl Regan and Barbara Bair gave a tour of the “Jacob Riis: Revealing 'How the Other Half Lives'” exhibit at the Library of Congress. The exhibit is sponsored by both the Library of Congre…

From 1985, C-SPAN interviewed Catherine Leroy about her time spent covering the Vietnam War as a photojournalist. She also answered callers' questions.

The co-authors of the book Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service showed examples of Grant’s work and discussed his story wi…

During the Great Depression and World War II, photographers working for the U.S. Government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created about 1…

Candacy Taylor (Overground Railroad), Jared Reinmuth (Big Black), Derf Backderf (Kent State), and Christian Staebler (Redbone) discussed their photographic and illustrated books on history a…

Drew Johnson gave a tour of the Dorothea Lange collection at the Oakland Museum of California. Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best k…

Three former White House photographers talked about their work with former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Sharon Farmer, Eric Draper, and Lawrence Jackson shared …

David Valdez talked about his photographs of George H.W. Bush which he took as the vice president’s personal photographer and then as White House Photo Office director from 1989 to 1993. He …

Photojournalists talked about covering the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) when he ran for president in 2008, as well as photographing other presidential candidates during the past decade. P…

Tyler, Texas, native Elmer Dixson was a U.S. Army Air Force photographer that captured images of bombing targets from high above. He captured pre and post-strike images of both Hiroshima and…

Victor Blue and Mitch Utterback spoke at a University of Colorado in Boulder event titled, “Embedded in Iraq: Journalists Encounter the Islamic State,” on the documentation of conflict and w…

Tom Liljenquist and his sons, Jason, Brandon, and Christian began collecting Civil War ambrotype and tintype photographs of ordinary soldiers in the mid-1990s. In 2010, the family donated mo…

A book release party for Ken Walsh, White House correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, who tells the stories of White House photographers and their access to the president over the pa…

Former White House photographer Amanda Lucidon talked about her book, Chasing Light, about her time covering Michelle Obama from 2013-2017.

Photojournalist Frank Johnston, who worked for United Press International and the Washington Post, talked about his career. His work includes photos of the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting, the Vi…

Former Time magazine White House photographer Diana Walker talks about her career and photos. She covered the administrations of Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. She talked about her ca…

Darryl Heikes talked about his career working for United Press International and U.S. News & World Report, photographing President Kennedy minutes before his assassination, and the signing o…

Lucian Perkins, a two time Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Washington Post staff photographer, talked about his career and his photos of wars in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iraq, and A…