As staff photographer and later White House news photographer, Bernie Boston chronicled the civil dissension and strife of the 1960s, prompted by the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements; the hermetic, inner sanctum of the White House and its Presidential residents; and history-making newsmakers, scandals, conflicts, and triumphs. He possesses a trained instinct for arresting a heightened moment drawn from unfolding human experience; an instinct that bores into the very essence of a specific time and place, as seen in the signature and iconic work of this exhibition Flower Power, a second-place Pulitzer Prize award-winner in 1967. A witness to our times, Boston is recognized as one of the United States most consummate photojournalists. This book is the first to document his career.
About the Author
Therese Mulligan is professor and coordinator of the MFA program at Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as director of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Gallery. She worked previously for eight years as the Curator of Photography at George Eastman House, and has worked extensively as an author, editor, and speaker in the fields of traditional and contemporary photographic history and aesthetics.