Official White House cabinet photo

September 14, 2009 @ 1:26 am

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The White House just released this photo of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden with the rest of the entire full cabinet staff. The photo was taken on September 10, 2009 in the East Room of the White House.

Here’s what you need to know:

Seated from left: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Standing second row, from left: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Back row, from left: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer.

Check it out!

The Official White House Photostream on Flickr

April 29, 2009 @ 12:20 pm

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Photo by Pete Souzas

If you’re crazy about the President and his staff, then you need to subscribe to the official White House photostream on Flickr where you can view and download hi-res images of people in government all for free!

Lots of good documentary eye-candy here for those who care. :)

Obama’s People by Nadav Kander

January 21, 2009 @ 6:11 pm

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Have you all seen the photographs of Obama’s cabinet members taken by Nadav Kander? They all look so eerie. Apparently, Nadav placed all of the subjects in a very small, confined space and asked them all to bring something with them to be photographed with. Nadav thinks that the way they compose themselves in front of the camera and interact with the object they brought tell a lot about their characters. I tend to agree with that statement. But honestly, I find the photographs very awkward. It’s almost as if they were CG versions of the real people or robotic versions of the real person. The creepiness is the same sort of feeling described in the “uncanny valley“, where simulated characters look so real that they begin to look bad and disgust us.

Be sure to check out the back story narrative with extra photos from behind-the-scenes of the photoshoot.