To Donald trump to denounce policy, disseminated by Pete Souza in the social media pictures of Barack Obama. Now the image band of the official photographers of the White house under Obama, and Ronald Reagan appears.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Always accessible
The award-winning photographer Pete Souza has recorded in his long career, many of the moments of the time history. Of the refugee crisis in Kosovo to the war in Afghanistan. After he had accompanied Barack Obama during the election campaign, he was in 2009, the official photographer of the White house and was a President of the US President probably is closer than ever to a photographer in front of him.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Man of the people
Also, when he accompanied Obama to official Meetings around the world, it has often been Souza’s spontaneous recordings, which developed the largest beam power. As of this snapshot, of the meeting of the President with the janitor Lawrence Lipscomb in the administration building of the White house. Images such as these established the common perception of Obama as the “man of the people”.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Subtle Trump Critics
His new Instagram Account created Souza on 20. January 2017, the date of Trumps swearing, and thus Obama’s last day in the office of the US President. Since then, he criticized with pictures of Obama in a subtle, but no less sharp, the politics of the current US government.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Children’s friend in the Oval Office
“Shade” is not Souza’s first picture book about his time with Obama. Already in 2008 he published his book “The Rise of Barack Obama”, which shows photos from Obama’s time as a Senator and later a presidential campaign. In November 2017, the picture book, “Obama followed: an Intimate Portrait” that contains, among other things, this photo. The father of two is an absolute children’s friend.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Relax with the Chancellor
Even if this photo was shot by a Reuters photographer: Souza started the same moment with his camera. A private Moment between Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Elmau castle in the summer of 2015. “Shade” shows a similar photo to the differences in the ratio of the two U.S. presidents to the Chancellor.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Idol for the youth
In an Interview with “New York,” said Souza, is that it is for him personally, often difficult to classify, what is the meaning of would have his photos of Obama. This originated as a spontaneous snapshot, and a little later went around the world. Like many others, it represents the role of Obama as a role model for the youth, not only in the United States, but worldwide.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
The man behind the camera
Souza became well known with his award-winning photos and critical Instagram posts of the world. By him only a few photos exist. This image shows the man behind the lens. As the official photographer of the White house, he has accompanied both terms of Obama all day, every day, for eight years. A single day he had missed due to illness, he said.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Always accessible
The award-winning photographer Pete Souza has recorded in his long career, many of the moments of the time history. Of the refugee crisis in Kosovo to the war in Afghanistan. After he had accompanied Barack Obama during the election campaign, he was in 2009, the official photographer of the White house and was a President of the US President probably is closer than ever to a photographer in front of him.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Man of the people
Also, when he accompanied Obama to official Meetings around the world, it has often been Souza’s spontaneous recordings, which developed the largest beam power. As of this snapshot, of the meeting of the President with the janitor Lawrence Lipscomb in the administration building of the White house. Images such as these established the common perception of Obama as the “man of the people”.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Subtle Trump Critics
His new Instagram Account created Souza on 20. January 2017, the date of Trumps swearing, and thus Obama’s last day in the office of the US President. Since then, he criticized with pictures of Obama in a subtle, but no less sharp, the politics of the current US government.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Children’s friend in the Oval Office
“Shade” is not Souza’s first picture book about his time with Obama. Already in 2008 he published his book “The Rise of Barack Obama”, which shows photos from Obama’s time as a Senator and later a presidential campaign. In November 2017, the picture book, “Obama followed: an Intimate Portrait” that contains, among other things, this photo. The father of two is an absolute children’s friend.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Relax with the Chancellor
Even if this photo was shot by a Reuters photographer: Souza started the same moment with his camera. A private Moment between Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Elmau castle in the summer of 2015. “Shade” shows a similar photo to the differences in the ratio of the two U.S. presidents to the Chancellor.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
Idol for the youth
In an Interview with “New York,” said Souza, is that it is for him personally, often difficult to classify, what is the meaning of would have his photos of Obama. This originated as a spontaneous snapshot, and a little later went around the world. Like many others, it represents the role of Obama as a role model for the youth, not only in the United States, but worldwide.
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Obama-photos Trump-criticism
The man behind the camera
Souza became well known with his award-winning photos and critical Instagram posts of the world. By him only a few photos exist. This image shows the man behind the lens. As the official photographer of the White house, he has accompanied both terms of Obama all day, every day, for eight years. A single day he had missed due to illness, he said.
In the Instagram age, a photo tells, in combination with a pair of Hashtags are often a whole story. Pete Souza, a photographer in the White house during the eight years in office, President Barack Obama, knows this only too well. The man, the Obama, the whole world was accompanied by, and exclusive access to the 44. The President of the United States, has become a master of the conjunction of image and Text.
20. January 2017, he switched his official Instagram Account, which documented the life of the President. Since then, he has released under his own name photographs from his time with Obama. His images accompanied by short sentences or comments that allude to political events under the current US President Donald Trump.
Without the new man in the Oval Office ever, explicitly in the name, uses, Souza’s captions on his Instagram profile, to comment on current U.S. policy.
Pete Souza in the rose garden of the White house in 2013
Active Trump Critics: Pete Souza
With his subtle, scathing nature of the criticism, throwing in the anglo-American space, “throwing shade” (English: shadow), or simply “shade” is called, he has already been able to win more than two million Followers.
16. October 2018 appears to be his latest book, “Throwing Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents”. In it, he combined a selection from the more than two million photos that he shot of Obama during his term in office, with short texts, headlines, and Tweets from and about Donald Trump, which serve as image signatures, the contrast between the two presidents highlighted.
On platforms such as Instagram Souza expresses again and again the criticism of the Trump government
On the occasion of the recent hearing of Brett Kavanaugh Trumps controversial candidate for the office of judge in the Supreme Court – in front of the US Senate, posted Souza a picture of Obama with his then-nominee Elena Kagan. In addition, he wrote, in effect: “your nomination was before the Senate in a fight.”
Concern for democracy
Also on the short-messaging service Twitter Souza is active. Here, too, he comments on current political Events. He takes, for example, with respect to the beginning of November in the United States to be held in the “Midterm Elections”. In this in-between elections, seats in the Senate and house of representatives are up for election. In addition, the governors and parliaments of most of US selected States. After Kavanaugh was confirmed in spite of the serious allegations made against him, as a judge of the Supreme Court, called Souza under the Hashtag #VoteThemOut to its supporters in the ranks of the Republican members of Congress in November.
Also, under a Hashtag, namely, #ThrowShadeThenVote, Souza is currently in New York. He asserted that he wanted to help with his political commitment, not a specific party. He was rather worried about the future of democracy.
Souza was already under the Republican Ronald Reagan as the official photographer. Later, he documented as a freelance photographer, among other things, the refugee crisis in Kosovo in the late 1990s, and the capture of the Afghan capital Kabul by NATO forces in the autumn of 2001.
New image band: “Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents”
In addition to numerous picture books from his time with Obama Souza has also published a selection of his work from the Reagan Era, in two volumes. But even before “Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents” in the book of acts, it should be clear: It is storming like none of Souza’s books before the bestseller lists. Because the photographer has not only established a loyal fan base, especially in the social networks, but also an innovative and mind-rich Format created, in the words as much meaning as the image itself.
Through the juxtaposition of the two presidents plays Souza, without a doubt, with nostalgia, a feeling that in this case, as misleading as it is necessary. The British psychiatrist and philosopher Neel Burton wrote in his book “Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of Emotions”, that could be argued, nostalgia would distort the perception of the past and idealize. Already the ancient Romans had a term for what psychologists today call “rosy retrospection”, a glorified view of the past.
Nostalgia makes you optimistic
The Obama on the cover of Souza’s new book is not a pink red, but a red-white-and-blue fins sunglasses. Nevertheless, the book could move with his nostalgic appeal to the readers to see Obama’s presidency, precisely through these “rose-colored glasses”. A critical consideration would be on the track.
This game with nostalgic feelings may sound reprehensible, but it can also have a positive effect. In 2013 in the “Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin” has published a study on personality and social psychology, researchers found that nostalgia can lead to a kind of optimism about the Future, because people feel more socially connected with others. Souza’s critical posts in the social media and his new book could achieve a similar effect – and the much-needed optimism back.