A review by chan_fry
Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs by Pete Souza

5.0

As both a photographer and an admirer of the Obama family, I assumed I would enjoy this book. I followed Pete Souza's photos on Flickr (before the next administration scrubbed his content from the official White House account) and always appreciated them. What I did not expect was how blown away I would be by this book -- emotionally. For someone who doesn't get misty-eyed very often, I went through a suspicious amount of tissue while viewing this book.

The photos are amazingly done. The selection process must have been grueling -- getting only 300+ images out of 2 million files? The intimate look at the eight years of Barack Obama's administration is a powerful reminder of what we once had.

(I have posted a longer review on my website, here.)