Posted on 09/01/2009 5:41:50 AM PDT by justkate
A public that wants to know everything about Barack Obama can thank Lisa Jack for a glimpse of what the future president was like when he was just another college freshman...with a partly unbuttoned Oxford shirt, a big Panama hat and puffs of cigarette smoke as his props of choice for projecting that coveted aura of post-adolescent confidence and cool...
The callow kid kicking back on a couch in a living room near L.A.'s Occidental College, where he and Jack were students, may not have been the image the Obama campaign wanted to project.
"I'm sure Hillary would have paid a fortune for them: 'Is this who you want picking up the phone at 3 a.m.?' Jack said from Minneapolis, her discourse earthy, humorous and freewheeling, sometimes salty. 'I could have made a boatload of money, probably, but I wanted to do it right.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
ps:MS. Jack would love to share her photos with the world, now that Barry Zero is safely in the White House. Just pony up to price of a ticket to her exhibition.
I seem to remember those photos were out during the campaign. Hillary did not need to pay for them, she was just afraid she would pay if she used them.
He’s still Barry the Freshman and it’s hurting all of us.
From the article:
“Nine were first published in Time magazine’s December “Person of the Year” spread on Obama; now 21 of the 36 photos, plus a blow-up of her original contact sheet, make up “Barack Obama: The Freshman,” an exhibition opening Thursday at M+B Gallery in West Hollywood.”
I imagine Ms. Jack saved the best for last.
What a sappy description. That's hardly the way I read those photos.
Year two will be sophomoric?
“Barack Obama went Hawaiian casual at Occidental College in L.A.”
I’m no fashion expert, but that looks like Kenyan casual to me.
One arrogant sob pimping out another arrogant sob.
now 21 of the 36 photos, plus a blow-up of her original contact sheet, make up "Barack Obama: The Freshman," an exhibition opening Thursday at M+B Gallery in West Hollywood.
She's making money. Just figured that this would have a more lasting value. Just as the debate moderator who had a book about Obama coming out on Jan 20th had more investment in seeing Barack actually WIN.
thnx for the link...
I wonder how many hours he spent in front of the mirror getting that arrogant, “I’m a rockstar hottie” expression just right...
That day a friend was telling her about a student named Barry she ought to photograph "because he's so cute." Moments later, the man himself walked in. He agreed to the shoot.
There was nothing out of the ordinary about the session, Jack says, although it impressed her that Obama had taken the initiative to bring the big, banded hat, a leather, bomber-style jacket with a fur collar and cigarettes as grist for her lens. "He obviously thought about how he wanted to have his picture taken." Obama shared at least one characteristic with the other students who sat for her portraits: "I think the thing that everybody was trying to portray the most was how cool they were."
I do have to say he was attractive in those. Maybe he wasn't a full-fledged Marxist yet - class warfare does seem to take such a terribly disfiguring toll on its combatants. I bet he got a lot of attention from coeds in school back then.
In his autobiography he was already a Marxist then...
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
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