Posted on 07/25/2014 8:08:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Dawoud Bey’s photograph of the man who would soon be president was taken on a Sunday afternoon in early 2007, at Barack and Michelle Obama’s Hyde Park home in Chicago. The portrait is at once stately and informal. Mr. Obama’s hands are folded gracefully in his lap. He wears an elegant suit and white shirt, but no tie. He stares intensely into the camera.
The photographer and his subject were comfortable with each other. Mr. Bey recalls that he asked Mr. Obama, who intended to be photographed in shirt sleeves, to put on a jacket.
The photograph depicts its famously private and introspective subject only months before he was to step into the abyss of presidential politics. And it defines him free of the stereotypes and myths that have come to characterize his presidency.
“The portrait conveys a degree of complexity, a sense of engagement, comfort, and a hint of weariness,” Mr. Bey observes in retrospect. “It breathes with the sense of a real person being described. That’s always what I hope to come away with: not merely the visualization of Barack Obama, but a momentary sense that a full and dimensional person is being described and looking back at you.”
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Ah, the eyes reflecting zero intelligence.
The clasped community organizer hands.
What a complete *zzhole.
FUBO.
FUBO until the universe ends.
And beyond.
Satan’s son
Looks like Dracula.
Looks just like an African dictator.
The portrait conveys a degree of complexity, a sense of engagement, comfort, and a hint of weariness,” Mr. Bey observes in retrospect. “It breathes with the sense of a real person being described. That’s always what I hope to come away with: not merely the visualization of Barack Obama, but a momentary sense that a full and dimensional person is being described and looking back at you.”
Hack! Spit!!! Ptooie!!!!
Every inch an empty-suit.
That photo is creepy looking, even if I didn’t know what I know now about him.
You didn’t even have to have gaydar to tell even back then that George Michael was a poofter.
Is that a screen shot image of 0bama spinning his head around, a’la Beetlejuice?
Show his feet up on the furniture. It seems to be the only way he knows how to sit.
Arrogant, evil, and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
Creepy
Turned unnaturally to the Left I see!
Holly cow! Do these people never get tired of kissing this idiots ass?
....at Barack and Michelle Obama’s Hyde Park home in Chicago.....
Have they spent even one night in this home since he was elected? Will they spend even one night there once he leaves office, before heading off to Southern California or Hawaii?
"Hi, Larry. I'm ready for you now."
His head looks like it was photoshopped onto another body.
C~R~E~E~P~Y
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