Mary Anne Fackelman-Miner
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Mary Anne Fackelman-Miner (born c.1947) is an American photojournalist and the first woman to serve in an official capacity as White House photographer.{{Cite tweet |number=1078475535989256192 |user=PeteSouza |title=Mary Anne Fackelman (Carter and Reagan) was the first woman to be an official White House photographer. Ricardo Thomas (Ford) was the first African-American to be an official White House photographer. |author=Pete Souza |date=December 27, 2018}}
Biography
Fackelman graduated from Mary Manse College with a BA in sociology/social work and attended the University of Toledo Law School for two years.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVVWwl4S_PcC&q=Mary+Anne+Fackelman|title=Women: A Documentary of Progress During the Administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977 to 1981|date=1981|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}} She worked as a clerk for Judge Geraldine Macelwane when she decided she preferred photography. She then worked two years as a staff photographer at the Toledo Blade before earning a position in the White House in April 1979.{{Cite magazine |year=1981 |title=Mary Anne Fackelman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6XkAAAAMAAJ&q=mary+anne+fackelman |magazine=Popular Photographer |publisher=CBS Magazines |pages=32, 114 |access-date=1 July 2019}}{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=In Search of Our Past: Women of Northwest Ohio|publisher=Roles & Achievements Committee Women Alive! Committee YMCA|year=1987|isbn=|location=|pages=34–36}}
She initially covered First Lady Rosalynn Carter and other general events during the Carter administration.{{Cite book|last=Haugen|first=Barbara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDE8AAAAMAAJ|title=Women: a documentary of progress during the administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977 to 1981|date=1981|publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off.|pages=64|language=en}} Fackelman was then assigned to Nancy Reagan after the 1980 election.{{Cite book|last=Tate|first=Sheila|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldKMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|title=Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan|date=April 9, 2019|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=9781524762209|pages=213–216|language=en}} Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's press secretary, wrote of Fackelman-Miner, "Maf had an uncanny ability to snap a picture without anyone being aware of her presence; she also had an incredible eye. She caught every emotion. Nancy didn't need to see many of her photos before she knew she wanted Maf, as we came to call her, as part of our team."
Her photographs have been published widely, including in TIME Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times and numerous books.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
=Gallery of work=
File:Paloma Cordero Nancy Reagan Mexico City 1985 earthquake.jpg|Nancy Reagan (center) surveying damage from the 1985 Mexico City earthquake
File:Reagan Contact Sheet C18479.jpg|Contact sheet of Fackelman's photos from the Reagan Library
File:Reagan Oval Office Football.jpg|President Ronald Reagan with a football in the Oval Office
File:Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.jpg|Official portrait of the Reagans 1985
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Category:American photojournalists
Category:White House photographers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women photojournalists