In The Room: An Evening with David Hume Kennerly

"In The Room" is David Hume Kennerly’s unprecedented decades-long eyewitness account of the pivotal events that defined our nation and world.

Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham.

Few photographers have stood closer to the making of history than David Hume Kennerly. Since 1966, his camera has been present at the moments that shaped modern America—from Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination to the fields of fire in Vietnam, from Nixon's resignation to Gerald R. Ford’s ascension, from the horror of Jonestown to Reagan and Gorbachev's historic fireside summit. He photographed the Pentagon burning on September 11, and was backstage with Barack Obama on the first night of his presidency. His work continues to this day.

In the Room gathers photographs taken during his extraordinary career into a single sweeping visual history of the United States during many of its most turbulent periods. Against the backdrop of America's 250th anniversary, Kennerly's lens offers something no archive can replicate: a view from “inside the room” where our country’s story is constantly being written.

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.

Copies of In The Room will be available for sale & signing courtesy of Joseph-Beth Cincinnati.

About David Hume Kennerly

David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Feature Photography for his coverage of the Vietnam and Cambodian wars, refugees in India, and the Ali-Frazier “Fight of the Century.” He served as President Gerald R. Ford’s chief White House photographer and is the first University of Arizona presidential scholar. His archive is housed there at the Center for Creative Photography.