White House photojournalist Diana Walker discusses her new book and career of covering five administrations from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton.

A slide show of photographs appearing in Public & Private by Diana Walker.

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Diana Walker answers your questions about her photographs and her favorite memories of her years covering the White House.

Photojournalist Diana Walker enjoyed uncommon access to the White House for more than twenty years, documenting the public and private lives of chief executives from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton.

A native of Washington, D.C., Walker is a graduate of Briarcliff College, where she earned a degree in drama. She worked in the retail business for ten years before she decided to pursue a career in her life-long hobby, photography.

Her first photographs for Time magazine appeared in 1976. Time hired Walker as a general assignment photographer in 1979, and moved on in 1984 to become one of two contract photographers assigned to cover the White House during the Reagan administration. Walker was the first photojournalist allowed to spend an entire day inside the White House with President George Bush.

Walker's work has been recognized by the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. In 1990, Walker received a first prize award from World Press Photo for her photograph of President Bush with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.

Her photographs appear in the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Minneapolis Museum of Art. men in the Arts and the Minneapolis Museum of Art.