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October Issue
2008
USC in Columbia, SC, Features Works
by Scott Applewhite
The University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, is presenting the exhibit, The American President: A Photographic History, featuring works by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Scott Applewhite. The exhibition of Associated Press photos that capture key moments in US presidential history will be on view at the East Gallery on the first floor of USC's Thomas Cooper Library through Oct. 10, 2008.
The exhibition includes more than two dozen photos on 16 large panels tell some of America's most remarkable presidential stories, from political victories and defeats to wars and assassinations to the moments that define a presidency and a generation.
The photographs, many of which have rarely been seen since their publication, span more than 60 years of history and influence. One is a shot of Harry S. Truman shortly after his improbable win over Thomas E. Dewey. The newspaper headline tells one story: "Dewey Defeats Truman." The 1948 photograph shows another: a beaming and victorious Truman.
Applewhite has won two Pulitzer Prizes as an AP photographer: the first for photos that documented the 1992 US presidential election and the second for photos that documented the events surrounding President Clinton's impeachment in 1999.
The AP exhibit is sponsored by the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies and the University Libraries.
A companion exhibit, titled Presidential Prospects Palmetto Politics: Four Campaigns from South Carolina Political Collections, will be on view at the Library through Nov. 28, 2008. In this exhibit, documents and memorabilia from the University Libraries' South Carolina Political Collections (SCPC) detail four presidential races: Kennedy-Nixon in 1960, Johnson-Goldwater in 1964, Ford-Carter in 1976 and Ernest F. Hollings' bid for the Democratic nomination in 1984.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings or call the Library at 803/777-8154.
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