Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/politics/pete-souza-obama-book.html
Craighead had been hired as chief photographer days earlier and “was freaking out about logistics,” he recounted. “She had no credentials or, you know, anything for the inauguration.”
The long awaited documentary featuring the Obama administration’s Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza recently made its debut on MSNBC, and Sarah and Allen share their thoughts, and why they shed a few tears. In addition, Pari Dukovic’s photo of Joe
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The long awaited documentary featuring the Obama administration’s Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza recently made its debut on MSNBC, and Sarah and Allen share their thoughts, and why they shed a few tears.
I am looking forward to Saturday at Photoville. I’ll be having a conversation with former White House photographer, Pete Souza.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/09/pete-souza-photoville/
I am looking forward to Saturday’s special edition of the Reading the Pictures Salon at the fabulous Photoville festival in New York. I’ll be having a conversation with former White House photographer, Pete Souza, at St. Anne’s Warehouse. Pete and I will focus on 8-10 of his photographs and discuss how each of them captured a particular aspect of the Obama presidency. True to our mission, we will talk about framing, composition, symbolism, body language, and also Pete’s artful role as photo editor.⠀
It’s the most inward form of photography writing to critique another writer’s thoughts, but reading a recent piece by the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones on the work of White House photographer Pet…
via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/schmaltz-and-secrecy-the-obama-legacy/
As it was with Regan, so it is now with Obama. If Jones wants a true picture of these last two terms then by all means he is welcome to include some of Souza’s official schmaltz, but if he wants that chronicle to have a grain of truth in it Jones will need to look beyond the photographs on Whitehouse’s Instagram feed. He’ll need to look for photographs which for the most part are still waiting to be taken, or daresay I say it, constructed. Photographs which wait to be given voice in the cells of Fort Leavenworth, amongst the server racks of the NSA’s massive data centers, and in the remote mountains of Waziristan
Link: PoynterVision: White House photo practices break promise of open government | Poynter.
Kenny Irby argues White House chief photographer Pete Souza‘s role is more that of a “propagandist” than a photojournalist since his job is to make the president “look good, make the president look presidential.”
A long-running tug of war over photographs at the White House has been exacerbated by digital technology.
WASHINGTON — Few ceremonies at the White House over the last five years have eluded the lens of Pete Souza, President Obama’s chief photographer and almost constant companion. One that did was Mr. Souza’s wedding, which was held last month in the Rose Garden with the president among 35 friends and family members on hand.
From the Seattle Times
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Despite the Pentagon saying that photographing the return of the 30 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan would violate the wishes of the families, White House photographer Pete Souza photographed and distributed a photo.