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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lens.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I was wondering if MAURICE BERGER could fawn over Obama more. There’s something pleasantly creepy about watching a liberal make an ass of themselves...
He went back long enough to find his BC.
“Dunham had died seven years earlier, but Obama hadn’t sorted through all her things. Now, alone in his old house for just the third night since he’d become president, he started rummaging through the boxes, digging, digging, until suddenly he found it: a small, four-paneled paper booklet the world had never seen before. On the front was an ink drawing of Kapi‘olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, in Honolulu. On the back was a picture of a Hawaiian queen. On one inside page were his name, his mother’s name, and his date of birth; on the other were his infant footprints.’
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/obama-finds-he-birth-certificate/
[Note: I don’t believe this story. Just another of Obama’s lies.]
My opinion
No openness which would include a frontal shot
No smile — says a lot about him
No tie — dissing the office of the presidence
No standing ready to serve
Closed hands — may as well say “closed mind”
No visible U. S. flag, presidential office, etc. — Could be a picture of anyone, but not a president
No tie — dissing the office of the presidency
Truly the face of America — it voted for him, TWICE!
If I were Bambi I would insist having my portrait painted on horseback in Napoleon’s uniform, sword in hand.
That would be the ultimate denunciation of the American people.
Very dark, and I don’t mean in color, I mean in spirituality.
Looks like a movie poster for Being There.
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