Available in April 2009 to mark the first one hundred days of the Barack Obama Administration, The Official Barack Obama Inaugural Book is published in association with Epicenter Media under exclusive license from the Presidential Inaugural Committee.Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly (President Ford s White House photographer), Robert McNeely (President Clinton s official photographer), and Pete Souza (the official photographer for the Obama White House) lead a team of well- known photographers to create a lavish celebration of Barack Obama s inauguration. The photographers will have special behind-the scenes-access to the inauguration exclusive to the book.The Official Barack Obama Inaugural Book will also feature for the first time ever photos submitted online by everyday people documenting their personal celebrations of President-elect Obama s inauguration. Photos can be submitted at either the book s official site (http://www.obamaphotobook.com) or at an iinaugural photo site on Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com). * National Television Campaign, including pre-publication launch with David Hume Kennerly on CBS Sunday Morning * National Print Advertising Campaign * National Radio Campaign * Online Promotion
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly has worked for TIME, Life, ABC, United Press International, and was a contributing editor for Newsweek. Kennerly shot the famous photo of Richard Nixon waving goodbye, and he was the White House photographer for President Gerald Ford. His book, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, was published in 2007.Robert McNeely is an American photojournalist and Vietnam veteran. He chronicled President Clinton s march to the White House and served for six years as Clinton s official photographer. In 1998, McNeely left his job at the White House to set up a project to document the 2000 political race. In 2000, he selected images from more than twenty thousand rolls of film and published The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert McNeely.Pete Souza is a freelance photographer and assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University s School of Visual Communication. He was the official White House photographer for President Reagan, and he was recently named the official photographer for President-elect Barack Obama. Published this past summer, Souza s The Rise of Barack Obama was a New York Times bestseller.
David Hume Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War, and two years later was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's personal White House photographer. American Photo Magazine named him "One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography." Kennerly has published several books of his work, including Shooter, Photo Op, and Photo du Jour. Robert McNeely bought his ?rst camera while serving in the Army in Southeast Asia. He worked as the staff photographer for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, and was a staff photographer in the Carter White House from 1976 to 1979 and President Bill Clinton's personal White House photographer from 1992 to 1998, which led to his book The Clinton Years. Tom Brokaw began covering the White House as a correspondent for NBC News in 1973 during the Watergate scandal. He was anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw for almost 25 years, and also served as the anchor of NBC's Today Show. U.S. Representative John Lewis was elected to Congress in 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since then. A leader in the American Civil Rights Movement, Lewis spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, and became nationally known during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
