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Patrick Witty

@patrickwitty

Chief photo editor at The White House. Past lives with The New York Times, TIME, WIRED, and National Geographic.

Washington, DC Katılım Temmuz 2010
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I took this photo twenty years ago on 9/11, just as the South Tower began to collapse. I’ve identified seven people in the photo. Please help find the rest. #911Anniversary
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I’ve been sober for 10 weeks today and attending AA meetings almost daily. I was asked to be the lead speaker at a beginners’ meeting over the weekend, so figured I’d post it here, too. 🫶🏽 open.substack.com/pub/alexiathom…
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Someone at TIME magazine doctored Filo’s photo, infamously removing the pole behind Mary Ann Vecchio’s head. The evidence of this can be found on the back of the original doctored print…
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Ralph Solonitz, a Kent State student, made this rarely-seen photo after the massacre on May 4, 1970. It was taken in the same spot as John Filo’s iconic @PulitzerPrizes winning photo.
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Michael Evans’ contact sheet from May 1, 1981. FYSA Evans documented the attempt on Reagan just a few months earlier
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How about this 1970 photo by Ollie Atkins of then-Prince Charles w/President Nixon in the Oval…
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King Charles in the Oval w/Reagan in 1981. Photo by White House photographer Michael Evans
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Pete Souza’s contact sheets from that scene on November 9, 1985.
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Photo from last night shows President Trump surrounded by cabinet members following the WHCD shooting. 📸: @Scavino47
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Good day to remember Lt. Col. William Anders, who photographed Earthrise on Dec 24, 1968. Yousuf Karsh photographed Bill in 1969 with the modified Hasselblad 500EL he used on Apollo 8. Anders died on June 7, 2024. “Here we came all the way to the Moon to discover Earth.”
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The White House Easter Egg Roll, 1898. McKinley was President. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Look her up.
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“I didn't know they were going to get him with a flag. I don't even remember seeing the flag,” Forman told the Boston Globe in 2001. Here is the full, uncropped version.
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Forman could hear the motor drive on his Nikon F failing. He switched to manual just in time to capture one of the most iconic photos in history.
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50 years ago today, Stanley Forman @sjforman138 photographed an anti-busing protestor attacking a man with an American flag in Boston. "The Soiling of Old Glory" won Forman his second consecutive @PulitzerPrizes.
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LBJ also had a ticker tape machine and a teletype machine to monitor the situation.
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LBJ had the same three-tv spread in the Oval. Love this moment captured by White House photographer Yoichi Okamoto of LBJ’s grandson
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LBJ watching the Apollo 8 launch on Dec 21, 1968, by White House photographer Mike Geissinger.
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