{"id":55456,"date":"2017-12-26T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55456"},"modified":"2017-12-26T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T02:02:15","slug":"white-house-photographers-book-a-powerful-portrait-of-obamas-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55456","title":{"rendered":"White House photographer’s book a powerful portrait of Obama’s presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House photographer’s book a powerful portrait of Obama’s presidency<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/a>
\n2017-12-24<\/p>\n

Sheila Stroup<\/strong><\/a>, The Times-Picayune<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nWhen 5-year-old Jacob Philadelphia wonders if his hair is like Barack Obama’s<\/a>, the president offers him an opportunity to judge for himself. (Photo by Pete Souza, The White House<\/a>)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I didn’t mean to read “Obama: An Intimate Portrait<\/a>.” I was only going to look at a few of the pictures before I wrapped it up for Christmas. I’ve always felt it was cheating to read a book you’re giving as a gift.<\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to give the book of photographs to our daughter Shannon and our grandchildren, Cilie and Devery, as soon as I heard Terry Gross<\/a> interview Pete Souza<\/a>, President Barack Obama’s<\/a> Chief Official White House Photographer<\/a>, on NPR’s<\/a> “Fresh Air<\/a>.” It sounded fascinating, and I wanted them to see that a person with skin the color of theirs could be president of our country.<\/p>\n

Shannon adopted Cilie and Devery when they were babies. There was never any doubt they were hers, and nobody could love them more than she does.<\/p>\n

Cilie is 8 now, and Devery is almost 6, and I know they must have questions about why their skin is a different color from their mom’s and their grandparents and their other relatives. I know they must get questions from other children.<\/p>\n

I’ve never forgotten what happened one day when I took Devery to his swimming lesson a few years ago. There was a young dad there whose skin was the same beautiful tone as his, and he looked at Devery and said, “Oh, he’s going to get questions.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I bought the big coffee-table book, it was shrink-wrapped, and at first I was going to leave it like that, cover it with Christmas paper, and put it under the tree. But as soon as I turned it over and saw the photo on the back, I wanted to read what Souza had written about that particular picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,5,459,8,26,20],"tags":[6483,10877,147,27882,24323],"class_list":["post-55456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-new-orleans-times-picayune","tag-pete-souza","tag-photography","tag-sheila-stroup","tag-the-new-orleans-times-picayune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55459,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55456\/revisions\/55459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}