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Synopsis
Chances are, Tipper Gore would have had a difficult time finding a publisher for this book if she were not married to the vice president of the United States. In all fairness, however, she was an experienced photojournalist long before she took up residence in Washington, D.C. This "diary" is a compilation of pictures taken during the first four years of the Clinton-Gore administration. They run the gamut from unusually intimate coverage of White House activities--and occupants--to a variety of people and places she has experienced in her recent international travels. If there are too many images of a family album-type nature, Gore reveals a keen eye for "the defining moment"--especially in her photographs of Rwandan and Haitian children.
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Chances are, Tipper Gore would have had a difficult time finding a publisher for this book if she were not married to the vice president of the United States. In all fairness, however, she was an experienced photojournalist long before she took up residence in Washington, D.C. This "diary" is a compilation of pictures taken during the first four years of the Clinton-Gore administration. They run the gamut from unusually intimate coverage of White House activities--and occupants--to a variety of people and places she has experienced in her recent international travels. If there are too many images of a family album-type nature, Gore reveals a keen eye for "the defining moment"--especially in her photographs of Rwandan and Haitian children.
From the Publisher
"When I'm feeling something intensely, or know that I'm witnessing asignificant moment, I often reach for my camera. These past four years havebeen so inspiring that I've taken more photographs than ever before in my life.Since the 1992 presidential campaign, I've shot hundreds of rolls of film,recording special family moments, important public events, and my travelsaround the United States and abroad. I look for the picture that tells astory--two old men gossiping in a marketplace in Marrakech; a bride and groomembracing in a public square in St. Petersburg; Al, lying flat on the floor inthe presidential palace in Pretoria, getting tips on back exercises fromHillary Clinton; Kristin hugging her father the day she went off to college.
"The role of photography in my life has taken time to evolve. In my twenties, Iwas trained to use a camera as a tool for communication, a task for whichphotography is of course superbly well suited. But over the years, I have cometo appreciate photography even more as an art form and a means ofself-expression. It's not easy to capture an image that has the power to evokecomplex feelings. When I do, it's tremendously satisfying. Finally--and mostimportantly, perhaps --photography is a way of keeping alive that part ofmyself which is not shared with anybody else." --From Picture This
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0756754623
- ISBN 13 9780756754624
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages151
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