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Matt Cashore and Barbara Johnston: the university's cameras today

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1990–present — the present office

The staff line now: Matt Cashore, Notre Dame class of 1994, has photographed the university since he arrived as a student in the fall of 1990 — beginning with the Dome yearbook, where he was photo editor — and has been a staff university photographer since 2007. His peers named him the University Photographer of the Year for 2016 by the University Photographers' Association of America, the profession's own honor; his books are This Place Called Notre Dame (2018) and Love Thee, Notre Dame, and he now directs the university's photography program, with sports work published in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times and ESPN The Magazine. Beside him on the university's own photography page stands Barbara Johnston, a university photographer whose photojournalism appeared in Life, People, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times before and around her university work. Between the defunct Photographer's Office of the Archives' record and these two names stands the modern arrangement entire: the institutional memory institutional no longer, but kept by named professionals whose own credits run to the national magazines — the pictorialist's salon circuit of 1949 become a profession with its own association and its own annual honor, held once already by the man at this city's university.

Sources:

  1. University of Notre Dame Photography — the program's own pages: Matt Cashore (class of 1994; photographing Notre Dame since fall 1990; Dome yearbook photo editor; staff photographer from 2007; Photography Program director; the books of 2018 and after; credits in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, ESPN The Magazine) and Barbara Johnston (university photographer; work in Life, People, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times).
  2. University Photographers' Association of America — University Photographer of the Year, 2016: Matt Cashore.

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Source: Matt Cashore and Barbara Johnston: the university's cameras today, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/notre-dame/people/matt-cashore-and-barbara-johnston-the-university-s-cameras/