Diana Walker: The Art Of Politics
By Megan • Dec 26th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Reuel Golden reports for PDN Online:
“Diana Walker has been a contract photographer for Time magazine since 1979, and worked as a White House photographer during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. She photographed George W Bush in 1999 for Talk magazine, behind the scenes while he was campaigning for the 2000 election. “My first impression was that he didn’t like being photographed. My second impression was that if he won, then the next four years were not going to be easy for someone like me who likes to get behind the scenes, so I decided to stop doing it,” Walker recalls. Walker was as good as her word and, except for a stint after 9/11 when Time was short staffed, she has not returned to the White House. “People either mind my presence or they don’t. President Clinton in contrast has said to me on numerous occasions that he believed in the power of photography.” Walker still works for the magazine if the assignment interests her; she has recently covered the presidential campaign of Hilary Clinton, a subject with whom she has an obvious rapport.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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