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Obama's First Year in Photos Exhibit Comes to Harlem
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 2, 2010
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A year in the life of phenomenally photogenic President Barack Obama will be on display starting Friday at the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The exhibit exclusively features 77 photos by Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza, beginning with the festive inaugural ball evening on January 20, 2009 and moves through the next 364 days. Many of these photos are on view to the public on the White House Flickr page, but if you want to rekindle your Ohhhhbama love with full size prints, now's the time!
The exhibit runs until April 18th, and is paired with a retrospective of work by illustrator and artist Jerry Pinkney, winner of the American Library Association’s prestigious 2010 Caldecott Medal. Pinkney’s watercolors illustrate a wide range of people, as well as major events in African-American history; from colonial times to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Together, the Souza and Pinkney exhibits are called 365 Days: 390 Years in the Making.) About his work, Souza says "This administration has been far and away the most open about making behind-the-scenes photographs available right away to the public... My hope is that through these photographs you will have an inside look at what only I see every day."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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