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  • Jacob Philadelphia checks out President Obama's hair in May 2009

    Jacob Philadelphia checks out President Obama's hair in May 2009

    Photograph by
    Souza, Pete, American, born 1954
    Subject of
    President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
    Philadelphia, Jacob, American, born 2004
    Medium
    ink on photographic paper
    Dimensions
    H x W: 13 x 19 1/16 in. (33 x 48.4 cm)
    Type
    digital prints
    Place captured
    White House, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
    Date
    May 2009
    Description
    Photograph featuring President Barack Obama bent over allowing a child to touch his head. The child, Jacob Philadelphia is in the center of the image standing in front of the Presidential desk in the Oval Office. Obama stands slightly to the child's PL. The child raises his PR arm with his PR hand on the President's head. Obama wears a dark suit with his hands in his pockets. On the left side of the image are two (2) adults and one (1) child who stand and watch the interaction between the President and Philadelphia. The two adults, one woman and one man, stand in profile to the camera with their PR sides facing the viewer. The child stands in the foreground, slightly out of focus, also with his PR side facing the viewer. In the lower right corner yellow couch cushions can be seen. The image is bordered in white.
    Topic
    African American
    Children
    Hair
    Identity
    Local and regional
    Photography
    Politics (Practical)
    Race relations
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
    Object number
    2013.176
    Restrictions & Rights
    Public domain
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    Classification
    Media Arts-Photography
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