Ebook Dennis Brack - Presidential PICTURE STORIES : A Book about Photographers and Their Stories vol. 2 DJV, FB2
9780615648828 English 0615648827 Imagine being twenty feet from President Richard Nixon as he announced his decision to resign as president of the United States-and then spending the night in the Oval Office. CBS cameraman George Christian did just that, and it was his first day at the White House. Video journalist Shelly Fielman�s first day at NBC was November 22, 1963. He was handed a tape recorder and $5,000 in cash and told to get on an American Airlines flight to Dallas, Texas to help cover the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On his third day working for NBC, Fielman watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. There are stories behind the iconic photographs of the Kennedy years: �The Loneliest Job in the World,� by George Tames. LBJ taking the oath of office, by Cecil Stoughton. John John�s salute, by Stan Stearns. Presidential Pictures Stories: Behind the Cameras at the White House reveals the tricks, triumphs, and defeats of news photographers who have covered the executive mansion. Book jacket., Presidential Picture Stories is about the photographers who cover the presidents, how they viewed the presidents they covered, and what the presidents thought of them. It is a unique new history of US presidents and their families. Stories about photographer's tricks, triumphs, defeats, and of course, war stories. There are stories about the iconic presidential photographs and how the photographers made them. An important part of the book tells about the tools that photographers used from Mathew Brady to today. Presidential Picture Stories is a fast history of the news picture business and a collection of delightful stories about the characters behind the cameras., The history of prizewinning Photographers who cover Washington DC and the stories that they tell.
9780615648828 English 0615648827 Imagine being twenty feet from President Richard Nixon as he announced his decision to resign as president of the United States-and then spending the night in the Oval Office. CBS cameraman George Christian did just that, and it was his first day at the White House. Video journalist Shelly Fielman�s first day at NBC was November 22, 1963. He was handed a tape recorder and $5,000 in cash and told to get on an American Airlines flight to Dallas, Texas to help cover the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On his third day working for NBC, Fielman watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. There are stories behind the iconic photographs of the Kennedy years: �The Loneliest Job in the World,� by George Tames. LBJ taking the oath of office, by Cecil Stoughton. John John�s salute, by Stan Stearns. Presidential Pictures Stories: Behind the Cameras at the White House reveals the tricks, triumphs, and defeats of news photographers who have covered the executive mansion. Book jacket., Presidential Picture Stories is about the photographers who cover the presidents, how they viewed the presidents they covered, and what the presidents thought of them. It is a unique new history of US presidents and their families. Stories about photographer's tricks, triumphs, defeats, and of course, war stories. There are stories about the iconic presidential photographs and how the photographers made them. An important part of the book tells about the tools that photographers used from Mathew Brady to today. Presidential Picture Stories is a fast history of the news picture business and a collection of delightful stories about the characters behind the cameras., The history of prizewinning Photographers who cover Washington DC and the stories that they tell.