Diana Walker

Diana Walker (born January 20, 1942) is an American photographer known for her work as a Time magazine White House photographer from 1984 to 2004.

Life and career Diana Walker was born in Washington, D.C. She was graduated from Foxcroft School and attended Briarcliff College, where she majored in drama. After college, Walker spent 10 years in her mother's dress shop before deciding to pursue photography, a long-time hobby, as a career.

Walker worked as a freelance photographer for many years, shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs, before getting a job at Washington Monthly. She has since contributed to People, Washingtonian, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, and The Village Voice.

Walker became a contract photographer for Time magazine in 1979, and was later promoted to one of the magazine's White House photographer positions in 1984, after covering Walter Mondale's presidential campaign. During her tenure at Time, Walker covered the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, and followed the campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton. While at Time, Walker spent a significant amount of time documenting Hillary Clinton's journey from first lady to senator, Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary of State. These photos have been compiled into a book, Hillary: The Photographs of Diana Walker. In 2012, she was awarded the Henry Luce Life Achievement Award from Time Inc.

Walker's work is featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the North Carolina State University libraries, the Addison/Ripley Fine Art Gallery and the Howard Greenberg Gallery.