The Smithsonian American Art Museum allowed me to be i guess what you would call a guest curator of this exhibit on jfk. See i was a photographer myself starting in the 50s and i photographed a lot of politicians. I started with Richard Nixon. Governor brown in california. And then of course john f. Kennedy. Many of the events he was present at and tragically i was in dallas when he was assassinated. Why this exhere in the American Art Museum at this time . Well, its centennial of his birth. 100 years ago, on may 29th, he was born. How do you put an exhibit like this together . Where do you start . Well, first you start with a few researchers. And we collected, actually, 34,000 photographs of jfk and his family. It took about six months. And it became the basis of a very important book that we published with harper collins. And from those 34,000 pictures and the 400 some odd pictures in the book, we were able to select 77 photographs that we felt told the story of jfk and his life and
Congratulations on it. Guest thank you. Coming for me thats praise indeed traded. Host you are kind indeed. Talk about the subtitle in your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio. I think it might be helpful originally to talk about these two men the context of their times. Of course they were defying me two men both alike in dignity to quote from shakespeare but separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that they shared one thing, a shakespeare wrote his plays seven years after he died. Two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume to him and collected all of that they had available and published 36 have been known 38 plays that shakespeare had written and the two men are connected across time and across the ocean and its the book that saved half of shakespeares plays from obscurity became a fetish object for collectors and henry folger chairman of the Editorial Company wanted to own every known copy of his first olio.
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