Carolyn Cole, David Hume Kennerly and Anne Wilkes Tucker

War/Photography: A Discussion

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AIRED ON: Mar 23, 2013

Carolyn Cole, David Hume Kennerly and Anne Wilkes Tucker discuss various images from the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography.

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Carolyn Cole

Carolyn Cole is a multiple award-winning photographer and a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She has covered conflicts in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Haiti and Liberia, where she earned the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the siege of Monrovia. As of March 29, 2009

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David Hume Kennerly

David Hume Kennerly has been shooting on the front lines of history for more than 45 years and won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He has photographed eight wars, as many U.S. presidents, served as chief White House photographer for President Gerald R. Ford and was named “One of the…

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Anne Wilkes Tucker

Anne Wilkes Tucker is the curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, having, in 1976, become founding curator of the photography department for which she acquired 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents. She curated or co-curated over 40 exhibitions, most with accompanying catalogues, including surveys on the Czech Avant-garde, the…

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Exhibit

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY presents images from both the military and civilian point of view including the advent of war, the fight itself and remembrance.

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