Diana Walker

Diana Walker (born January 20, 1942) is an American photographer known for her work as a Time magazine White House photographer from 1984 to 2004.

For the English aviator, see Diana Barnato Walker.
Diana Walker
Born (1942-01-20) January 20, 1942
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materBriarcliff College
OccupationPhotographer
SpouseMallory Walker
Children2

Life and career

Diana Walker was born in Washington D.C. She attended Briarcliff College, where she majored in drama.[1] After college, Walker spent 10 years in her mother's dress shop before deciding to pursue photography, a long-time hobby, as a career.[2]

External video
video icon Oral history interview with Walker conducted by the University of Texas at Austin's Briscoe Center for American History, March 8, 2013, C-SPAN

Walker worked as a freelance photographer for many years, shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs, before getting a job at Washington Monthly. She has since contributed to People, Washingtonian, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, and The Village Voice.[3]

Walker became a contract photographer for Time magazine in 1979, and was later promoted to one of the magazine's White House photographer positions in 1984, after covering Walter Mondale's presidential campaign. During her tenure at Time, Walker covered the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, and followed the campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton.[4] While at Time, Walker spent a significant amount of time documenting Hillary Clinton's journey from first lady to senator, Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary of State.[5] These photos have been compiled into a book, Hillary: The Photographs of Diana Walker.[6]

Awards

Walker has won several awards for her work from World Press Photo, the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. In 2003, she received the National Portrait Gallery's Paul Peck Award for her interpretation and portrayal of the presidency.[7] In 2012, she was awarded the Henry Luce Life Achievement Award from Time Inc.[3][4]

Books and exhibitions
External video
video icon Presentation by Walker on Public and Private, October 30, 2022, C-SPAN
video icon Booknotes interview with Walker on Public and Private, December 22, 2002, C-SPAN
video icon Interview with Walker on The Bigger Picture, November 20, 2007, C-SPAN

Walker has authored three books. Public & Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency (2002) chronicles Walker's own collection of photographs of the White House and Washington D.C. from her time at Time.[3]

The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits (2007) was published by National Geographic and includes 200 candid photos of presidents and other world leaders. Her most recent book, Hillary: The Photographs of Diana Walker, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014, documents Hillary Clinton as she moved from first lady to senator to presidential candidate and later as Secretary of State.[6]

Walker's work is featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History.[8] Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the North Carolina State University libraries, the Addison/Ripley Fine Art Gallery and the Howard Greenberg Gallery.[8][9][10][11]

References
  1. "The Presidential Debate at the University of Miami". www6.miami.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  2. Van Riper, Frank. "The Public & Private Diana Walker". The Washington Post.
  3. "Diana Walker". Our White House. Archived from the original on 2016-03-20. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  4. "The Making of a Meme | Schedule | sxsw.com". SXSW Schedule 2013. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  5. "Meet the woman who took this photo". CNN. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  6. "An Intimate Portrait of Hillary Clinton in Photographs". Time. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  7. Villarreal, Ignacio. "2003 Paul Peck Presidential Award Winners". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  8. "Diana Walker, Photojournalist | Smithsonian". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  9. May, Chang (2005-08-11). "'Diana Walker: Photojournalist' Exhibition - NCSU Libraries, 2005". www.lib.ncsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  10. "Diana Walker | Addison/Ripley Fine Art". www.addisonripleyfineart.com. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  11. "Diana Walker Political Party". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
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