| Title: |
George Tames
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
U.S. Congress. Senate. Historical Office
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| Collection: |
Senate Oral History Project
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| Series: |
Item 5 of Series George Tames
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| Description: |
As a newspaper photographer, George Tames was a regular on Capitol Hill over a span of forty years. He developed access to and captured the likeness of numerous members of Congress, and had his work reproduced in many influential publications. He developed a style contrary to the "herd instinct" of press photographers, demonstrating his artistic eye, sense of place, and special intimacy with his subjects. In these interviews he relates some of the stories behind his most memorable photographs and offers his perspective of the Senate through a camera's lens.
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| Extent: |
15 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Tames5.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1988 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Tames, George, 1919-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
21-Jan-1919
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Photographer
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| Age at speaking: |
69
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| Document date: |
16-May-1988
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| Interviewer: |
Ritchie, Donald A.
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| People discussed: |
Eleanor Roosevelt; Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; Kennedy, Jackie; Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier; Kennedy, Mrs. John F.; Onassis, Jackie; Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, 1929-1994; Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, 1884-1962; Roosevelt, Eleanor; Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin Delano
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Congress. Senate; White House, Washington, DC
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
District of Columbia; Eleanor Roosevelt; Federal government; Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; Kennedy, Jackie; Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier; Kennedy, Mrs. John F.; News photographers; North America; Onassis, Jackie; Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, 1929-1994; Oral history; Photographers; Photography; Presidents' spouses--United States; Presidents--United States; Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, 1884-1962; Roosevelt, Eleanor; Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin Delano; U.S. Congress. Senate; United States; White House, Washington, DC; Women
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022108-23111
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