Did you ever think you would see the day when the president of the United States shared pictures on Flickr?
Even though this is likely handled by his team, and regardless of your politics, I think this is a great move, and fascinating behind the scenes photographs.
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Did you ever think you would see the day when the president of the United States had his own logo? How about his own taglines? His own website where he sells t-shirts? His own Twitter account?
Obama having his own flickr is interesting but it is far from being the window into his personal life the way it is for many others. I’m not saying it’s bad, but it is a bit twisted to see our future president being marketed like a new gadget.
the flickr is kinda cool. I’m not sure how interesting it will be…but it’s nice to see they are trying to push the interaction with the public in new ways. Even if they don’t pull it off all that well, at least they’re trying new things. Far too many people in that sort of position try pretty hard not to try anything new for fear of the unknown consequences or failure or some other silly reason….so at the very least he and/or his team, have that going for them.
Being nearly 2009, it would be utterly stupid for anyone remotely in the public light to not have a well established social networking presence. I know of too many bands, DJs, graphic designers, photographers, etc. etc. who don’t even have real websites anymore, they rely solely on MySpace or FaceBook or both of them. The only exception is that their domain-name.com might redirect to their myfacesitebookflickr page.
We live in a world now not only of instant information but of instant user generated, critiqued, commented and suggested feedback as well. We all expect to be able to touch the people we see on TV or in movies, same goes for political figures. Even if Obama’s PR team manages his Flickr account (and I’m sure they do), it, if nothing else, gives the appearance that he is a mortal man and not anyone out of the ordinary.
Thousands of prints, slides and negs of the Kennedy family were lost when the twin towers were attacked, they were stored in a safe in the basement of one of the two buildings. Most were never publicly shown, now we’ll never see them, at least now we have a chance of seeing more.
Wow that’s a lot of photographs!!!
I’m pretty sure that photostream belongs to David Katz, Obama’s personal photographer…
Chances are the Big O had little to do with it aside from signing a release…
You mean President-elect. Two more months until he is President. Big difference.
The photo’s are interesting but also very measured and I’m sure only allowed to be posted once they were approved.