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David Friend


Born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
January 31, 1955


David Friend is an editor, author, and award-winning documentary producer with a career spanning journalism, photography, and film. Since 1998, he has been the editor of creative development at Vanity Fair, following his tenure as Life magazine’s director of photography. His work has shaped major journalistic projects, including the 2005 Vanity Fair story that revealed FBI insider Mark Felt as “Deep Throat,” the confidential Watergate source. He also played a key role in expanding Vanity Fair into books, e-books, television, and digital media, launching VanityFair.com.
As an author, Friend has explored cultural and historical themes in books such as Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (2006), The Naughty Ninetie
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“[C]ameras, in the right hands-or at least in more and more hands of average citizens-may help create a culture in which the previously powerless have the welcome recourse of evidence against the culpable.”
David Friend, Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11

“Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.”
David Friend

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