Diana Walker
Diana Walker (born January 20, 1942) is an American photographer known for her work as a Time magazine White House photographer from 1984 to 2004.
Diana Walker
- Name
- Diana Walker
- Born
- 20 January 1942
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Education
- Briarcliff College
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Spouse
- Mallory Walker
- Nationality
- United States
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Diana Walker (born January 20, 1942) is an American photographer known for her work as a Time magazine White House photographer from 1984 to 2004.
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Diana Walker (born 1942) is a journalist, photographer and photojournalist, of American nationality. The journalist was educated at Briarcliff College. Works are held at Art Institute of Chicago.
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• Name — Diana Walker • Born — 20 January 1942 • Birthplace — Washington, D.C., U.S. • Education — Briarcliff College • Occupation — Photographer • Spouse — Mallory Walker • Children — 2
Life and career
Life and career
Diana Walker was born in Washington, D.C. She was graduated from Foxcroft School and attended Briarcliff College, where she majored in drama. After college, Walker spent 10 years in her mother's dress shop before deciding to pursue photography, a long-time hobby, as a career. Walker worked as a freelance photographer for many years, shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs, before getting a job at Washington Monthly. She has since contributed to People, Washingtonian, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, and The Village Voice. Walker became a contract photographer for Time magazine in 1979, and was later promoted to one of the magazine's White House photographer positions in 1984, after covering Walter Mondale's presidential campaign. During her tenure at Time, Walker covered the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, and followed the campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton. While at Time, Walker spent a significant amount of time documenting Hillary Clinton's journey from first lady to senator, Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary of State. These photos have been compiled into a book, Hillary: The Photographs of Diana Walker.
Books and exhibitions
Walker has authored three books. Public & Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency (2002) chronicles Walker's own collection of photographs of the White House and Washington D.C. from her time at Time. The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits (2007) was published by National Geographic and includes 200 candid photos of presidents and other world leaders. Her most recent book, Hillary: The Photographs of Diana Walker, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014, documents Hillary Clinton as she moved from first lady to senator to presidential candidate and later as Secretary of State. Walker's work is featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the North Carolina State University libraries, the Addison/Ripley Fine Art Gallery and the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
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Awards
Walker has won several awards for her work from World Press Photo, the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. In 2003, she received the National Portrait Gallery's Paul Peck Award for her interpretation and portrayal of the presidency. In 2012, she was awarded the Henry Luce Life Achievement Award from Time Inc.
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- 1.The Presidential Debate at the University of Miami. www6.miami.edu.
- 2.Van Riper, Frank. The Public & Private Diana Walker. The Washington Post.
- 3.Our White House. Diana Walker.
- 4.The Making of a Meme | Schedule | sxsw.com. SXSW Schedule 2013.
- 5.Meet the woman who took this photo. CNN.
- 6.Villarreal, Ignacio. 2003 Paul Peck Presidential Award Winners. artdaily.com.
- 7.An Intimate Portrait of Hillary Clinton in Photographs. Time.
- 8.Diana Walker, Photojournalist Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution.
- 9.May, Chang. 'Diana Walker: Photojournalist' Exhibition - NCSU Libraries, 2005. www.lib.ncsu.edu. 2005-08-11.
- 10.Diana Walker Addison/Ripley Fine Art. www.addisonripleyfineart.com.
- 11.Diana Walker Political Party. www.artnet.com.
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