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A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.
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Officer Eugene Goodman: The Storming of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021
Showing posts with label Presidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidents. Show all posts
Monday, January 5, 2026
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Virtual Project: James Earl Carter 1924 - 2024
James Earl Carter Jr. (1924 - 2024) was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. After lying in State in Washington, DC, Carter's remains will return to Georgia on January 9, 2025 for a private service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Carter taught Sunday School well into his 90s, before he's buried at the family home next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter. View the on-line exhibit here.
Ken Hawkins: Carter Wins!, 1977
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Jimmy Carter at 100
September 25, 2024
Ken Harkins
Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to offer a special selection of photographs by Ken Hawkins of Jimmy Carter to commemorate his 100th birthday on October 1, 2024.
Ken Hawkins is a photojournalist who has covered politics, disasters, and conflict zones—including Vietnam, Nicaragua, and El Salvador—since 1970, working globally for publications and agencies such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Forbes, Paris Match, Stern, the New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. For over two decades, his work was represented by the premier photo agency SYGMA Paris/New York. In 2016, Hawkins authored "Jimmy Carter – Photographs 1970 – 2010", a photographic memoir of his time as a TIME photographer working the Carter campaign and White House.
Please contact the Gallery for print details.
The Carter Center has invited members of the public to contribute photos of themselves alongside birthday messages for the country's oldest living former president. The images make up a mosaic marking the centennial.
Ken Hawkins
Monday, July 22, 2024
Gallery Photographer Joe McNally's Photographs Feature in Tributes to Joe Biden
July 22, 2024
Gallery photographer Joe McNally's photographs feature prominently in today's Guardian feature on Joe Biden’s political career across the decades – in pictures, as well as in The Irish Times.
In September 1988, then Senator Joe Biden on the metro liner to Washington DC. He was returning to work in the Senate having suffered an aneurysm, which was life threatening. Photograph: Joe McNally
Joe Biden, September, 1988
Photograph: Joe McNally
Portrait of Senator Joe Biden in his office shot in September of 1988. The Senator had just returned at this point to his duties having suffered an aneurysm which was life threatening.
McNally's photographs are also featured in articles from NBC News and US News and World Report
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Acclaimed LIFE photographer Bob Gomel looks back
One of his fabled JFK shots. - Courtesy Bob Gomel
October 3, 2012
Acclaimed photographer Bob Gomel looks back
Asked what it was like to be a photojournalist for LIFE magazine during its 1960s heyday, Bob Gomel does not hesitate to answer. “It was the mecca,” he says with a combination of excitement and nostalgia.
“In my wildest dreams, I thought about things like that, and it never really occurred to me that I would ever become part of that wonderful, elitist group of photographers,” the renowned photog tells SFR. “There was no place higher that you could aspire to.”
Gomel’s iconic images have stood both the tests of time and digital media: a meta Malcolm X photographing then Cassius Clay inside a Miami diner; JFK examining the first space capsule; candid shots of the Beatles relaxing the day prior to their career-defining Ed Sullivan Show appearance.
“It’s a trip down memory lane,” he says of the images he selected for LIFE in the 1960s, his forthcoming exhibit at Monroe Gallery. “Everybody realizes now, retrospectively, that the people that we photographed all became iconic, [but] we had no idea of their value historically when we were doing it.”
“It’s amazing to me how 50-years-ago images can be still relevant today,” Gomel, who describes his current schedule as still “busy as can be,” continues.
Not bad for a kid from the Bronx who was first captivated by photography at age 10, after admiring a picture his science teacher had shot and hung inside the classroom
.
“[It] was a beautiful sepia-toned print of a cobblestone street with a manhole cover in the middle, and a pigeon on it,” he recalls. “I looked at that thing and thought, ‘My God, that’s just beautiful,’ and I was mesmerized.”
Curious, he joined the “little photo club” at his public school, and his lifetime affair with still images began.
“I got hooked!” he says.
The one thing missing in the equation was convincing his parents to fork over the then-whopping $83.75 to purchase his dream instrument, a Ciro-flex camera.
“It was the first post-World War II camera made in America,” he points out.
His parents didn’t budge, so the young Gomel started a bike route delivering groceries to earn the dough.
“I remember once, in the middle of the winter, driving up the snowy hills with that bike, the front wheel basket loaded, and I slipped and fell over,” Gomel reminisces. “A dozen eggs cracked and so, not knowing what to do, I went home and replaced the broken eggs with ones from my mother’s refrigerator and continued to deliver that order,” he laughs. “It’s really what sticks in your mind [after] all these many years.”
He took over a closet in his family home and turned it into a makeshift darkroom.
“It was a cheap imitation of the German Rolleiflex, but I cut my teeth on that Ciro-flex,” he says of his first camera, adding that because there was no real formal training available, he mastered his craft based on “trial and error.”
Focused, he would later land his dream job at LIFE, where he became a trailblazer implementing now-standard maneuvers like double exposure and camera rigging—like when he took a groundbreaking aerial shot of the casket containing the body of President Dwight D Eisenhower in the US Capitol’s rotunda from 280 feet above ground.
“If you can envision a picture and you haven’t got any immediate idea of how to do it, you seek out ways,” he explains.
His visit to Santa Fe, it turns out, will be something of a class reunion, as both former LIFE managing editor Dick Stolley and former reporter Hal Wingo—the twosome that would later found People magazine—live in town.
“I don’t get a chance to see many of my colleagues because the TIME-LIFE alumni association basically orients interests and activities around New York City—luncheons and what have you,” Gomel, who is now Houston-based, says. “It’s not practical for me to be able to join them on those occasions.”
With one foot in the retirement door and the other still active in sporadic travel photography, Gomel says, he often gets the itch to immerse himself in photojournalism once more. One event that cemented this, he says, was a trip to New York in 2001. After several delays, he flew back home the evening of Sept. 10.
“I was sound asleep the following morning when my friend called me something around 7:30 am and said, ‘Turn on your television set,’” he says. “When I saw what was going on, I realized I was right there a few hours before, and God—it was killing me not to have been able to be a part of that event and that I had just missed it. So the answer to your question, do I miss it? You bet.”
Opening reception with Bob Gomel
Friday, October 5 5 - 7 PM
Exhibition continues through November 8, 2012
“In my wildest dreams, I thought about things like that, and it never really occurred to me that I would ever become part of that wonderful, elitist group of photographers,” the renowned photog tells SFR. “There was no place higher that you could aspire to.”
Gomel’s iconic images have stood both the tests of time and digital media: a meta Malcolm X photographing then Cassius Clay inside a Miami diner; JFK examining the first space capsule; candid shots of the Beatles relaxing the day prior to their career-defining Ed Sullivan Show appearance.
“It’s a trip down memory lane,” he says of the images he selected for LIFE in the 1960s, his forthcoming exhibit at Monroe Gallery. “Everybody realizes now, retrospectively, that the people that we photographed all became iconic, [but] we had no idea of their value historically when we were doing it.”
“It’s amazing to me how 50-years-ago images can be still relevant today,” Gomel, who describes his current schedule as still “busy as can be,” continues.
Not bad for a kid from the Bronx who was first captivated by photography at age 10, after admiring a picture his science teacher had shot and hung inside the classroom
.
“[It] was a beautiful sepia-toned print of a cobblestone street with a manhole cover in the middle, and a pigeon on it,” he recalls. “I looked at that thing and thought, ‘My God, that’s just beautiful,’ and I was mesmerized.”
Curious, he joined the “little photo club” at his public school, and his lifetime affair with still images began.
“I got hooked!” he says.
The one thing missing in the equation was convincing his parents to fork over the then-whopping $83.75 to purchase his dream instrument, a Ciro-flex camera.
“It was the first post-World War II camera made in America,” he points out.
His parents didn’t budge, so the young Gomel started a bike route delivering groceries to earn the dough.
He took over a closet in his family home and turned it into a makeshift darkroom.
“It was a cheap imitation of the German Rolleiflex, but I cut my teeth on that Ciro-flex,” he says of his first camera, adding that because there was no real formal training available, he mastered his craft based on “trial and error.”
Focused, he would later land his dream job at LIFE, where he became a trailblazer implementing now-standard maneuvers like double exposure and camera rigging—like when he took a groundbreaking aerial shot of the casket containing the body of President Dwight D Eisenhower in the US Capitol’s rotunda from 280 feet above ground.
“If you can envision a picture and you haven’t got any immediate idea of how to do it, you seek out ways,” he explains.
His visit to Santa Fe, it turns out, will be something of a class reunion, as both former LIFE managing editor Dick Stolley and former reporter Hal Wingo—the twosome that would later found People magazine—live in town.
“I don’t get a chance to see many of my colleagues because the TIME-LIFE alumni association basically orients interests and activities around New York City—luncheons and what have you,” Gomel, who is now Houston-based, says. “It’s not practical for me to be able to join them on those occasions.”
With one foot in the retirement door and the other still active in sporadic travel photography, Gomel says, he often gets the itch to immerse himself in photojournalism once more. One event that cemented this, he says, was a trip to New York in 2001. After several delays, he flew back home the evening of Sept. 10.
“I was sound asleep the following morning when my friend called me something around 7:30 am and said, ‘Turn on your television set,’” he says. “When I saw what was going on, I realized I was right there a few hours before, and God—it was killing me not to have been able to be a part of that event and that I had just missed it. So the answer to your question, do I miss it? You bet.”
Opening reception with Bob Gomel
Friday, October 5 5 - 7 PM
Exhibition continues through November 8, 2012
Listen to Art Beat radio interview: Life Magazine and photographer Bob Gomel
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