NYT: Meditation on President Obama’s Portrait

[Playinghardball]

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 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. Obama’s 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.”

More here: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/barack-obama-photo-dawoud-bey/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Found on the Obama Diary
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How about that.....no gray hair!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. "How about that.....no gray hair!!" Makes you wonder why anyone wants the job. n/t

[monmouth3]

2. I've also noted how tired the President is these days. I can certainly understand it, the gray hair

is a given but I'll be glad when he goes on vacay to get some rest....