Photo Op.

KENNERLY, David Hume [Colin Powell].

$1,400.00

Item Number: 146674

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995.

First edition of this collection of photographs which capture, firsthand, groundbreaking events in modern history. Quarto, original cloth, generously illustrated with photographs throughout. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half title page, “To Gen. Colin Powell, Who has been at the center of many of the events that have shaped our times. It has been an honor to know and photograph you on your march through history. I’m presuming that there will be quite a few more ‘Photo Ops’ in your future – count me in on a few of them! Cheers – David Hume Kennerly Santa Monica 7/25/95.” The recipient, General Colin Powell was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the first Black secretary of state. When Life magazine made a brief comeback for Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Kennerly shot an inside story called “Men of War” on Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare with a uniquely warm inscription.

"David Kennerly once said to me, 'In photography everything can be taught, except how to see.' In his photographs as collected in this book, we see people and historical events through the keen, alert eye of an eminent camera artist" (Herman Wouk). "Kennerly's Photo Op is an extraordinary personal journey through the last thirty years. His photographs will put you into the middle of the Vietnam war, ringside with Ali and Frazier, on the spot at Jonestown, and at the core of other momentous episodes. This will sweep you through the events that shaped a generation. Photo Op is as good as being there" (James A. Michener).