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Official White House photographer for Donald Trump announced: Shealah Craighead

January 27, 2017Dunja Djudjic

After some rumours and speculations, the new Presidential photographer has finally been announced. Obama’s photographer Pete Souza left the White House, and the one to replace him and work with Donald Trump is Shealah Craighead. She is a photojournalist who already has the history of photographing politicians, and even working in the White House for George […]

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Photographing the President: an overview and interesting facts about all presidential photographers

January 25, 2017Allen Murabayashi

The importance of presidential photography cannot be understated in today’s visual world. Although the bulk of photography since the inception of regular presidential photography in the 1950s still consists of “grip and grin” photo ops, White House photographers have sought to capture a more intimate look at the leader of the free world. Press access […]

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Do you have what it takes to become the official White House photographer?

January 20, 2017Dunja Djudjic

The concept of official White House photographer was established in the 1960s and started with John. F. Kennedy. Since then, every president of the US, except Jimmy Carter, has had his official photographer. The latest video by DigitalRev shows a brief history of presidents and their official photographers. We’ve been surrounded lately by the news […]

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Do you have what it takes to become the official White House photographer?

January 20, 2017Dunja Djudjic

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This is the oldest known photograph of a Presidential inauguration

January 20, 2017John Aldred

On March 4th, 1857, while the Capitol building was still under construction, James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th President of the United States of America. The 1850s were a significant period in photography. The wet collodion process was invesnted in 1851. It gave photographers the ability to make direct contact prints from glass negatives. […]

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This is the oldest known photograph of a Presidential inauguration

January 20, 2017John Aldred

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Photographing the President; A look inside Pete Souza’s camera bag

July 4, 2016John Aldred

While many will be preparing their own camera bags right now and getting ready to record the evening’s festivities and celebrate American history, one photographer captures American history-in-the-making on an almost daily basis. That photographer is Pete Souza, who has followed President Obama with his cameras since 2005. By the end of Obama’s tenure, Souza believes he will have […]

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Photographing Obama, insights from White House photographer Pete Souza

June 12, 2016John Aldred

Having first photographed President Obama in 2005, White House photographer Pete Souza estimates that by the time Obama’s second term is up, he will have made over two million photographs of the President. It’s difficult to imagine following and photographing the same person for eleven years. In this video, from BBC’s Newsnight, Souza talks about […]

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