PICTURES FROM POWER CENTRAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605570002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 15, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

)' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/01 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000605570002-0
WASHINGTON POST
15 January 1985
Says Michael Evans, one of four
men. :in- :history?,>to' be the- official.
White House- photographer: "I was
t _ }
room one day when -in walks. this
unnamed Cabinet:.,member, obvi-
ously in a great deal of. hurry. : So T
started _ telling him about . my Por-
trait Project, and-there just was no.
way he -was going 1'toget - by-me'
unless he agreed ;.to ;.sit for-it. He.
was jumping all over the place, and
I just stood in his `way until he
agreed. .-. That's the'sort'of thing
I had go=through. Not .as -glamor-
ous as it appears, hmmmY '
Michael Evans is the president's
personal photographer," a job that
requires, him tobe .both ubiquitous
and invisible. He's the. one_ White
House staff member ivho must be
on . the- scene for:; every _ private-`
meeting;- while.never, -being=:no=
ticed. At 40, he. has: the conserva-a
tive presence of a KStreet lawyer,:='
with -his .gray',flannels-white but-'';j
ton-down shirt'-and neatly graying`:
hair. His is a demeanor and 'look: 4
c:not `unlike that of the people he=
must photograph. -,'daily . in the
White House, but strikingly differ-...'.
ent`from'that ~ of his most famous
predecessor, David Hume'Kenner-
ly, who would show up, in Jerry
Ford's Oval Office - wearing blue
jeans..
ctures 'roc Power
pone wrote once-that if Ken-f
ne y as iike:a--son-to;-Ford, --I:m
like the _.president.'s nephew " says'
14vans . "That's an accurate 'assess:'
me$f bf'our relationship."
her-Michael: Evans* and His White House. .-Yearbook
- In the past four years, his port-
folio,has come to include pictures of
,then-Secretary of State Alexander
Haig;anforming Reagan that Anwar
Sadatawas indeed -dead; _.Reagan'$ .:
'lo6k- of': horror gas 'the CIA briefed'-:
hini on'the downing of the Korean .y,
. Ai :-Lines-- jet :-by Soviet fighter
planes;, and-"many' quiet personal
moments between Ronald and Nan-
cy Reagan. There are also the shots
he missed and.. doesn't -like to ' re-
member. "When there's something
like an assassination -attempt,", he
says, "you just hope you don't dis-
grace-
.,.;.
yo -elf"
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STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/01 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000605570002-0