Michael Evans (photographer)
Michael Evans | |
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Chief Official White House Photographer | |
In office 1981–1985 | |
President | Ronald Reagan |
Preceded by | David Hume Kennerly (1977) |
Succeeded by | David Valdez (1989) |
Personal details | |
Born | Michael Arthur Worden Evans June 21, 1944 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | December 1, 2005 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 61)
Spouses | Linda Forde
(m. 1967; div. 1975)Story Shem (m. 1983) |
Children | 6 |
Occupation | Photojournalist |
Michael Arthur Worden Evans (June 21, 1944 – December 1, 2005) was an American newspaper, magazine, and presidential photographer. He was
Life and career
Born in
He began shooting Reagan as a photographer for Time, when Reagan first ran for the Republican nomination for president. Evans continued to document his political career, moving to Washington, D.C., in 1980 as the White House Photographer for four years.
In 1982 he founded The Portrait Project, a nonprofit designed to photograph powerful people in Washington. Evans' portraits of 595 Washington personalities became a 1985 exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and a 1986 book People and Power: Portraits from the Federal Village.
After he left his job at the
Evans was a lifetime
Michael Evans married Linda Forde in 1967; they had three children and divorced in 1975. He later married Story Shem in 1983, a former
Evans died of cancer at his home in Atlanta, Georgia.[5]
References
- New York Times.
- ^ Rourke, Mary (December 3, 2005). Michael Evans, 61; His Photographs Chronicled Reagan's First Term. Los Angeles Times.
- ^ McKiernan, Scott (January 2006). Tribute to Michael A. W. Evans. Archived June 16, 2007, at archive.today The Digital Journalist.
- ^ Pierce, Bill (January 2006). Nuts & Bolts: Michael Evans. Archived October 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine The Digital Journalist.
- ^ a b Peter Junker (December 1, 2005). "NPPA Life Member Michael Evans, 61, Dies In Atlanta". National Press Photographers Association. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
Michael A. W. Evans, a noted newspaper, magazine, and White House photojournalist and early developer of software systems for cataloging photography collections, died on December 1, 2005, at his home in Atlanta.
External links
- In memoriam: Michael Evans via White House News Photographers Association