Diana Walker
American, 1942
Walker was a contract photographer for Time magazine during the Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations. She covered the campaigns of Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Walker has won numerous awards from World Press Photo, the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. She received the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery 2003 Paul Peck Award for her interpretation and portrayal of the presidency. Her photographs are in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Museum of Art and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Walker was honored by Time, Inc. in 2012 with the Henry R. Luce Award for Lifetime Achievement. She donated her archive to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
“I have been lucky enough as a photographer, mainly for Time magazine, to watch history being made at the White House, and to be sent far and wide to photograph important figures, from Steve Jobs to Henry Kissinger. Nothing could please me more than to have some of my images on the walls of our embassies and consulates around the world, hopefully to help shed light on our leaders and thus promoting understanding throughout the world.”
