Public & Private; Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Diana Walker. Format is approximately 11 inches by 10 inches. 200 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Saks Jandel plate on fep. Inscribed to Mrs. Susan Savitsky by the author/photographer on title page, dated December 2002. Foreword by Michael Beschloss. Commentaries by the Presidents and First Ladies. Diana Walker is known for her work as a White House photographer from 1984-2004. Walker worked as a freelance photographer for many years before getting a job at the Washington Monthly Magazine. She has contributed to People Magazine, The Washingtonian, Fortune, and the New York Times Magazine. Walker became a photographer for TIME Magazine in 1979, and was became one of the magazine's White House photographers in 1984, after covering Walter Mondale's campaign. Walker covered the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, from World Press Photo, the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. In 2012, she earned Time's Henry Luce Life Achievement Award. From Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, "White House photographer Diana Walker has had unique access to the Presidency for more than 20 years. "Public & Private demonstrates, in intriguing detail, that she has used her access brilliantly. The 130 photographs in "Public & Private cover the public aspects of the office--from inaugurations and state dinners to cabinet meetings and press conferences--bus also offer a rare, candid look at the private moments of the presidents, the first ladies, and the important figures in each administration. Walker' s expert lens has captured world leaders, Congressional insiders, the White House press corps, and family moments away from the spotlight, including the Bushes at Kennebunkport and Bill and Hillary Clinton on safari in Botswana. Humorous and heartbreaking, joyful and deadly serious, Walker' s revealing images provide an unexpected understanding of the leaders we think we know so well. With a foreword by renowned presidential historian Michael Beschloss, memories and perspectives contributed by the photographs' subjects, and Walker' s own anecdotes, "Public & Private is a unique and important contribution to the record of America' s highest office.