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Subject: [Leica] Michelle Obama; Official Portrait by Joyce Boghosian
From: durling at cox.net (Mike Durling)
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:08:28 -0500
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Don,  That is my impression too.  I think they consciously tried to 
include the Jefferson portrait in the photo and that's why there is so 
much headroom.

Since it is pretty ambiguous there is some question as to whether it was 
effective.

Mike D

Don Dory wrote:
> I have a slightly different take on the image.  Isn't that Jefferson in the
> background; with all that possible interpretation?
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:40 PM, rsphoto's email <rsphotoimages at 
> comcast.net
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>> wrote:
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>> Joyce has been around the White House before - knows the lighting,
>> backgrounds.
>>
>> Seems rather a fitting portrait, compared the that other stuff we saw last
>> month.
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>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/michelle-obama-official-p_n_170601.html
>>
>> Comments?
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>>
>> Bob
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