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Magazine Preview: Obama's People
The Caucus —
This fall, The Times Magazine asked the highly regarded portraitist Nadav Kander to photograph Barack Obama’s administration as it was being assembled. The result is “Obama’s People,” 52 full-page color portraits taken in mid-December and earlier this month in Chicago and Washington of the vice president-elect and the incoming president’s advisers, aides and cabinet secretaries-designate, along with the legislators who are likely to be key to moving the administration’s agenda along. In the online presentation of the portfolio, Mr. Kander and the Times’s director of ...
Nomination for the "You're Trying Way Too Hard, Dude" Award
Open Left - Front Page —
As a brief aside from all the political news this week, let me say I'm not the most photogenic guy in the world - and we've all been photographed at certain times in our lives looking really stupid or silly. But I've just gotta take this moment to nominate Obama aide Cass "Barack Is a Minimalist" Sunstein for the "You're Trying Way Way Way Too Hard, Dude" Award for this New York Times photo:
Nothing betrays a desperation to look Serious and Smart and Contemplative than posing for a portrait by actually inserting the end of your glasses into your mouth. ...
Takes On "Obama's People": Rahm Emanuel
BAGnewsNotes —
... Obama's People - The Series (photos by Nadav Kander/NYT Mag)
Behind "Obama's People" - Editor's Note (NYT Mag) ...
"Obama's People": The West Is The Best
BAGnewsNotes —
Ushering in crisis-era, "no nonsense" Obama team with big budget celebrity spread, Salazar a gift from central casting.
Obama's People - The Series (photos by Nadav Kander/NYT Magazine)
The Faces Of A New Administration
TalkLeft —
... points us to a NYTimes magazine gallery of photos of faces of the incoming Obama Administration (faces you know and some you do not.) Kevin's post is good so go read it, but I was struck by his observation about Hilda Solis' photo: ...
Hugh Hewitt: "Obama's People"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
The New York Times provides a photo gallery of the new Administration's senior appointees . (HT: Chris Cillizza .) Run through it to get a sense of how great the ambitions must be on this the first full day of the Obama era. I wish we had a link to a similar photo shoot from the first day of the Bush Administration, when 9/11 was only months away, and the realities of the world not yet fully appreciated. If this team can continue the departed team's record of keeping the country safe from a second catastrophic attack, they will have accomplished a great great ...
Hugh Hewitt: "Obama's People"
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
The New York Times provides a photo gallery of the new Administration's senior appointees . (HT: Chris Cillizza .) Run through it to get a sense of how great the ambitions must be on this the first full day of the Obama era. I wish we had a link to a similar photo shoot from the first day of the Bush Administration, when 9/11 was only months away, and the realities of the world not yet fully appreciated. If this team can continue the departed team's record of keeping the country safe from a second catastrophic attack, they will have accomplished a great great ...
Fifty-Two Thousand Words
Balloon Juice —
... A really interesting photo series of members of the incoming Obama administration and key members of Congress in the NY Times magazine that is worth your time. Several things stood out to me, chief of which is just how attractive many of the people are- Reggie Love, Mona Sutphen, and Eugene Kang all look like models. The other thing that struck me was how many people with red hair there were. Additionally, you really do get a sense of who they are just from a picture. The seriousness of demeanor and posture of Jones, Gates, and Shinseki, contrasted with the ...
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
... to foreign leaders is especially interesting because it's clear he's instituted a new dress code: The new president is not wearing a suit jacket. It was a rule during the Bush administration that no one ever enter the Oval Office without a jacket. Toyota has surpassed GM as the world's largest automaker. GM's sales were down 11 percent in 2008, compared to 4 percent for Toyota. Via John Cole, this photo essay of the incoming administration is pretty cool. Remember when we joked ...
Spectacles
BAGnewsNotes —
... (image 1: Mark Wilson/Getty Images. caption: Tom Daschle, the latest Obama cabinet pick to face a snag, at a Senate confirmation hearing. January 2009. image 2: Charles Dharapak/A.P. caption: Tom Daschle, who advises health care clients, is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for health and human services secretary. image 3: from: Obama's People - The Series . Photos by Nadav Kander/NYT Magazine . January 2009.) ...
Good News From the “Good Government” Front
Balloon Juice —
... That picture of Peter Orszag was taken from the excellent photo essay at the NY Times magazine about the folks who make up the Obama administration. ...
Michelle on marriage: 'The bumps happen to everybody'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... during all of the Bush years. This Sunday's issue marks the fourth time the magazine has devoted a cover to the White House since the election.
For Robert Draper's profile of Valerie Jarrett in July, the writer talked to David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and President Obama -- the latter who also made cameos in lengthy pieces by Matt Bai (on the health care fight) and Mark Leibovich (on Robert Gibbs). And numerous administration officials appeared in the "Obama's People" spread.
In June, Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati ...
