If you're a student of photojournalism or a member of the Washington DC press Corps in the 70's and 80's you will recognize Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly . Kennerly is often referred to as a "Political Photographer" after his many years in Washington. Other American Political Photographers include PF Bentley, Dirck Halstead Wally McNamee, and Diana Walker. These were huge visual journalists in the Pre-Digital era. A photo by one of these photographers on the cover of Time, Life or Newsweek could shape events in a way 1000 images cannot in the visually flooded world of the Internet. There will not be another group like them. And I was lucky enough to have met all in the group.
Today as I walked through the media compound at the Michael Jackson Memorial service I was surprised to see a prominent "analog' photographer from the Pre-Digital Era shooting images with his CELL PHONE!!! I pulled up my camera and squeezed off the image below.
Photographically it's not much. But there's much symbolism in the image. Think about it. I did!
