White House Images
Susan Biddle
Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Susan Biddle is a Washington Post staff photographer and was a White House staff photographer in the Reagan and George Bush administrations. She began her career photographing for the Peace Corps and later worked as a staff photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Denver Post. In 1987 she joined the White House staff where she documented the Presidency during the last year of Reagan’s administration and the entire Bush administration. Her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Life, National Geographic as well as several book including Day in the Life of America, Hong Kong-Here be Dragons, and America at Home. She has won awards with White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association. Her talk is being held in conjunction with The American President, an Associated Press exhibition of presidential photographs, past and present. The 2008 Chamberlin Lecture.Cosponsored By:
- Chamberlin Lecture Fund
- Greenlee School of Journalism
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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