Barack Obama, under the lens

Talk about being ahead of the curve...

Photographer Pete Souza began making Barack Obama the focus of his work back in early January 2005 -- on the day Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator from Illinois, in fact.

Obama already was identified as a comer in Democratic politics but at that point, few anticipated how far and how quickly he would ascend. So Souza -- who takes a bipartisan approach to his craft; he served as the official White House photographer for Ronald Reagan-- was able to document much of Obama's path to the precipice of the Democratic presidential nomination without the impediments that now surround the candidate.

The result is a just-published photo-book, "The Rise of Barack Obama." More can be read about it and Souza in this post on The Swamp.

-- Don Frederick

Comments

[Wm Tate]

This story seems vaguely familiar. Hmmm. Could it be because similar photo spreads were done for Bill Clinton during the 1992 election?

I remember getting it, free!, as a CD with a new Mac computer I purchased the next year. It was filled with dramatic shots sure to make the Clintons seems more heroic. Apple's way of helping the Clintons, I guess.

And now, the publisher of this new book, and the Swamp, and the Top of the Ticket are helping Obama. The question is, Is it intentional or not?

-Wm Tate,
http://www.atimelikethis.us/