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.

David Hume Kennerly graduated from West Linn High School. During his time there he worked on the school newspaper "the Amplifier."

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 President Gerald Ford. He and the president's daughter Susan Ford were to give the President Liberty (dog), a golden retriever, that became a signature of the Ford presidency.

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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Kennerly authored several books, alone and in cooperation.

Photo Op: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Covers Events That Shaped Our Times, University of Texas Press (1995) ISBN 0292743238
Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
Battle Eye: A History of American Combat Photography
Photo du Jour: A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium
Sein Off: The Final Days of Seinfeld