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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Barack Obama pictures as The people man

The historic 2008 election inspired thousands of people around the world to post their Obama-themed photography and art on the image-sharing site Flickr. Here is the best of the 100,000 images TIME examined.
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Artist: Anne Savage 
Made of faces from Obama rallies, Savage calls this mosaic 
Out of Many, We are One. It is pieced together from the faces of 5,700 people who attended the rallies she covered.

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Photographer: Erica J. Baker
This mural was spotted in Bushwick, Brooklyn. 


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Artist: Marco Pece 
The Italian artist produces artworks made from Lego.


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Artist: Cassidy 
Photographer: Shari B. Ellis 
The children of campaign volunteers at this Obama office in Los Angeles made drawings to decorate the walls.


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Photographer: Ben Kimball 
This photo was taken on the day before the general election. Photographer Kimball says he wanted "to distill exactly what I was feeling before the election.


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Artist: Michael Murphy 
Artist Murphy crafted this sculpture from 1000 feet of high tension wire.


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Photographer: Melvin Heng
The photographer made this shot in London's underground. 


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Photographer: Jenny Murray
In October, 32-year-old Murray trudged into the muddy banks of the Huron River to take this shot of a graffitied railroad bridge near Ann Arbor, Michigan. 


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Photographer: Sheri Heller
The photographer spotted this poster in the Barrio Libre in Old Tucson, Arizona. 

Barack Obama on Flickr


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Artist: Rafael Lopez
Photographer: Adam Snow
The artist painted this poster, entitled 
Nuestra Voz ("Our Voice") in the hope that it would inspire fellow Latinos.
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Photographer: Rob Greenleaf
A pair of custom Keds featuring the President-elect was made by Stencil Crew. 


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Artist: David Choe 
Photographer: Mark Vancleave 
This poster, by Brooklyn artist Choe, was spotted on a wall behind a building in Downtown Minneapolis' Warehouse District.

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Photographer: Vince Briggeman 
The "Captains" of the Bamabus, above, drove this 1986 Volkswagen across America in the final 31 days of the election. 


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Artist: Charis Tsevis 
The artist has titled this mosaic, constructed of state flags, 
Barack Obama: An American Portrait

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Photographer: Travis Petershagen 
This photo was taken on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, when Obama spoke at Denver's Invesco Field.

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Photographer: Benson Hendrix 
A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, erected this decoration on Halloween.


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Photographer: Jackie Hadley 
The photographer writes, "The picture is a self portrait. It was taken on November 5. This was the first election I was ever able to vote in and I was so proud and excited to see President Elect Obama win the election I wanted to capture my exact feelings. The sun rays through my fingers represents the ray of hope Barack Obama brings to me, my family, The United States of America and the world."


2 comments:

marco said...

I'm marco pece aka udronotto.
I saw only today that you had published this picture, I'm glad that you have placed in your blog

Unknown said...

The People man will be better for a nation and people of nation or outside . i just shared some moment to you people so know the men better and Vote for him