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Timeless images capture world leaders

When Diana Walker was photographing for Time magazine, there were occasions when she had to travel on several transcontinental flights, including a Concorde jet, to submit a photo to the magazine in time for print. To her credit, she became an important person in the world of news and events, capturing moments in time and history that told stories to the world.

"My job was reporting with a camera," Walker said. "The money shot is a picture that tells what is happening at the moment—it's what is going to illustrate news that day."

Walker, a Wood River Valley resident since the early 1980s, will share her life experiences as a White House photographer through five administrations in a free presentation at The Community Library in Ketchum today, July 13, at 6 p.m.

The show will include much of her work, which was capturing important moments in history with world leaders and covering breaking news for Time magazine. In addition, Walker's work as a White House photographer offered her opportunities to photograph free-world leaders behind the scenes and as people.

Walker has been recognized by the World Press, the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. She was the first photojournalist to spend an entire day inside the White House with President George H. W. Bush, creating a 1989 Time magazine photo essay, "A Day in the Life of George Bush." In addition to Time magazine, Walker's photographs have been published in Paris Match, Vanity Fair, People, Life and New York magazines.

From Walker's numerous decades of covering the White House, her work expanded to include covering U.S. Sen, John Kerry's presidential campaign, traveling with Teresa Heinz Kerry as a friend. She also followed Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become the U.S. secretary of state.

"It was very interesting to see," she said. "It was a different perspective on the inside."

When Walker approached past presidents about using images for her book, "Public and Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency," she said it was an enjoyable experience.

"I didn't have a chance to sit down and talk with them when I was working, I was there to do a job," she said. "You are not there to get to know them, and you can not be a distraction in any way. Presidents are real people and as stressful as they may appear, they are human beings.

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The always classy Jamie Lee Curtis released a statement about her father, Tony Curtis, who passed away last night from cardiac arrest at 85.

Curtis and Janet Leigh's daughter says the following:

Jamie Lee was previously estranged from her dad for a number of years but later reconciled. Curtis himself had five other children from a total of five marriages.

RIP.

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