PF Bentley Photographic Archive, 1979-2001



	Creator	Bentley, P. F.
	Title:	PF Bentley photographic archive
	Dates:	1979-2001

	Abstract:	The archive includes 35mm negatives, contact sheets and prints from Bentley's assignments, including his coverage of Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and Bill Bradley in the 1990s.
	Identification:	urn:taro:utexas.cah.01252
	Extent:	29 linear feet
	Language:	Materials are written in English.
	Repository:	Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Biographical Note

PF Bentley is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. Throughout his career, Bentley has covered domestic and international politics, and is known and respected throughout the print and broadcast community for earning unprecedented access to presidential candidates, heads of state, and Capitol Hill. Bentley is a former Time magazine photographer and Special Correspondent who has won five first-place Picture of the Year awards for his political coverage. He has produced programming for ABC-TV Nightline, shot for The Travel Channel and helped create Reason.TV with Drew Carey, where he was Senior Producer and Director of Photography for the web network.

His assignments have included political coverage in Cuba, Haiti, Panama, South Korea and El Salvador.

Bentley was lead instructor for over 10 years at the very successful Platypus Workshops that trained photojournalists in the world of videojournalism production. He is now conducting his own documentary filmmaking and cinematic videojournalism training workshops for individuals or groups. Workshops clients have included The International Monetary Fund, Golf Digest and The International Disability Center. His shooting and editing clients have included ABC-TV Nightline, The Travel Channel, John Wiley & Sons, Globe-Pequot Press, Warner Books, Penguin Group Publishing, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, World Children's Fund, The Reason Foundation, The North Face, Specialized Bikes, Civil Beat, I Aloha Molokai, and Hawaii Forest & Trail Nature Adventure Tours.

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Scope and Contents

The archive includes 35mm negatives, contact sheets and prints from Bentley's assignments covering Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and Bill Bradley. It also includes color transparencies from across his political, domestic, and international news assignments.

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Arrangement
	The archive has been minimally processed, preserving the original order of the creator. Negatives and contact sheets and prints are grouped by subject and arranged chronologically. Positive transparencies are grouped roughly by subject.
	One-hundred black and white 35mm negative frames from the Bentley archive have been scanned and are stored in a Center for American History database . Using the online finding aid, patrons may click the highlighted links next to the entries in the archive to view images scanned from that entry. To make an appointment to view other images from the archive, please contact the Photographs Archivist. Click here to see all images digitized from the PF Bentley Photographic Archive

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Restrictions

Conditions Governing Access

A portion of this collection is stored remotely. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.

Conditions Governing Use

Photographer retains reproduction copyright on all images. Contact repository for further information.

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Index Terms

	Personal Names
		Bradley, Bill, 1943...
		Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
		Clinton, Bill, 1946-....
		Clinton, Hillary Rodham
		Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
		Dole, Robert J., 1923-....
		Gingrich, Newt
		Glenn, John, 1921-2016
		Lott, Trent, 1941
	Corporate Names
		Million Man March (1995 : Washington, D.C.)
		United States. Congress
	Subjects
		Politicians
		Politics and government
		Presidents
	Places
		Cuba
		El Salvador
		Haiti
		United States
		Washington, D.C.
	Document Types
		Photographs

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Prints

Bill Clinton

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2.325/V118c [SRH1230002584]

For Clinton book, 1992

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2.325/ZZ18 [SRH1230022410]

For Clinton: Portrait of Victory

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2.325/ZZ19 [SRH1230022411]

For Clinton: Portrait of Victory [damaged]

General

This box is restricted.

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2.325/V118d [SRH1230002585]

For Clinton book, 1992

1992

State of the Union, 1996

With Trent Lott, 1999

Newt Gingrich

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2.325/V118d [SRH1230002585]

Progress and Freedom Strategy Seminar, December 1999

1994-1995

With wife Marianne, 1995

1995

1998

Robert Dole

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2.325/V85d [SRH1230002479]

Last days in Senate, early campaign, April 1996-May 1996

Early, 1996

Early campaign with Gingrich, Lott, 1996

With Heather/John M., 1996

Press coverage – Josh Fine book, 1996

Elizabeth Dole, 1996

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2.325/V85e [SRH1230002480]

Dole with pollsters, 1996

Jack Kemp, 1996

Contest entries, 1996

"Lost Negatives" [Dole], 1996

1996

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2.325/V85f [SRH1230002481]

1996

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2.325/V120 [22885207]

Miscellaneous Dole

Bill Bradley

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2.325/V118e [SRH1230002586]

Prints for Bradley book, 1999

Miscellaneous staff, 2000

Campaign, 2000

Miscellaneous

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2.325/V118f [SRH1230002587]

George W. Bush, 1999

John Glenn, August 1, 1998-August 6, 1998

Trent Lott with John Kasich, May 1, 1997

Trent Lott, week of, January 18, 2001

Rick Lazio, May 31, 2000

Vietnam MIA Re-patriation, 1999

Unidentified

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Oversize Prints

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2.325/V118b [SRH1230002532]

Newt Gingrich, with wife Marianne, 1995

Newt Gingrich, 1995

Bill Clinton, 1996

Robert Dole, last days in Senate, 1996

Robert Dole, 1996

Elizabeth Dole, 1996

Bill Bradley, 2000

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2002-220/1 [12711254]