Art
Pensive President, Washington, D.C., 1974 (limited edition, framed photo)
- Item Number
- 112
- Estimated Value
- 2000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 500 USD
Item Description
David Hume Kennerly had a backstage pass to history when Gerald Ford asked him to serve as his official White House photographer. From 1974 to 1977, Kennerly was at the president’s side documenting both big, public events and small, private moments.
“I was only 27 when I got the job, and I was given a great opportunity,” Kennerly says. “I went from peering into the White House through a frosty window to being on the inside.”
Personal images like this one – pensive, pipe in hand – contrast Ford to the secretive Richard Nixon, who had handed the office over to his vice president in the wake of the Watergate campaign scandal. Kennerly saw his access as unprecedented and he shared it from time to time with more than 60 of his colleagues, arranging exclusive photo opportunities for them. All that openness worked toward the legacy Ford wished for himself: “I hope historians will write that the Ford administration healed the land, that I restored public confidence in the White House and in the government.”
Item Special Note
This framed photo is signed and numbered by Kennerly. It is a 16" by 20" archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta paper.
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