NYT: Meditation on President Obama’s Portrait
Dawoud Beys photograph of the man who would soon be president was taken on a Sunday afternoon in early 2007, at Barack and Michelle Obamas Hyde Park home in Chicago. The portrait is at once stately and informal. Mr. Obamas 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 Museum of Contemporary Photography had commissioned Mr. Bey the year before to take a portrait of a notable Chicagoan. He had known the Obamas for several years and saw them periodically at social gatherings. Impressed with Mr. Obamas keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Mr. Bey sensed a growing air of expectancy about him.
When I was asked who I wanted to photograph, Mr. Bey said, it took me but a second to decide that I wanted to photograph him.
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Found on the Obama Diary
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How about that.....no gray hair!!