Lipstick on an Administration: Reading Eric Draper’s “Front Row Seat” Photos of George W. Bush – Reading The Pictures What’s more interesting about the retrospective photos of Bush by Eric Draper is how defensive they are. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2013/04/lipstick-on-an-administration-reading-eric-drapers-front-row-seat-photos-of-george-w-bush/ What’s more interesting about the edit than anything is how defensive it is. In…
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/25/front-row-seat-eric-draper-on-george-w-bush/#1 “A lot of those moments he knows I’m there and he trusts my presence,” Draper says, “That’s really him.” Which is the point: whether his subject is self-aware or spontaneous, Draper’s portrait of Bush is authentic. Bush was impatient with pretense…
Eric Draper spent the last eight years alongside George W. Bush as the chief White House photographer. Draper, 44, who had covered the 2000 campaign for The Associated Press, took the White House from film to digital as he met world leaders and mixed it up with Britian’s Prince Philip. He also received an unexpected…