Posted on 12/02/2005 7:03:22 AM PST by Borges
The personal photographer for President Ronald Reagan has died in Atlanta. Michael Evans died of cancer Thursday at his home. He was 61.
The service is planned for 3:45pm Tuesday at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Atlanta. The body was cremated.
Evans worked in the White House from 1981 to 1986. He said among the photographs that stood out to him were those of Reagan's attempted assassination. Evans was standing right behind him.
Perhaps Evans' most famous photograph is of a laughing President Reagan in his cowboy hat. It appeared on the covers of Time, Newsweek and People magazines the same week.
Evans moved to Atlanta in 1989. His wife, Story Evans, says her husband believed it was his job to stand between the president and the press pool. She says that was why Evans was behind Reagan when the shots were fired at the president.
Evans worked briefly in the photography department of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1989.
He produced two books of art photography: "People and Power: Portraits from the Federal Village" and "Homeless in America."
Survivors in addition to his wife include four daughters, Megan Evans of Toronto, Amanda Evans of Monterrey, California, and Abigail Evans and Madeleine Evans, both of Atlanta; two sons, Ewen Riddell of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Drew Evans of Los Angeles; two sisters, a brother, and four grandchildren.
Photo discussed in article:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/covers/1101040614/reagan_remembered/images/08.jpg
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