NEW - Another (Better?) Obama Poster Source Photo (Scene on the Road)

NEW - Another (Better?) Obama Poster Source Photo

Ironically, just hours before President Obama was sworn in, there was a flurry of new activity on the Obama-poster-photo-source front. I received a number of comments on my MYSTERY SOLVED! The Obama Poster Photographer ID'd post.

There is a brand NEW photo a couple of photo detectives found that looks better than the Reuters photo. It has the entire necktie and shoulders, it's facing the same way, and has all the same highlights and shadows - even on Obama's collar - as the iconic Fairey HOPE poster.

Steve Simula created this bit of evidence for his Flickr page on the photo he and a few others out there. It looks like an Associated Press photo from sometime in 2006 or earlier.

I am at a rest stop on I-95 driving home from covering the Obama inauguration, so I can't look into it now, but I have every confidence someone out there will find a version of the photo that still has all its metadata and caption intact. Let us know!

Posted by Tom Gralish on January 20, 2009 8:47 PM | Permalink

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Tom Gralish is a general assignment photographer at The Inquirer, concentrating on local news and self-generated feature photos. He has been at the paper since 1983, photographing everything from revolution in the Philippines to George W. Bush’s road to the White House to his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo essay of homeless people in the city.

For his photo essay on Philadelphia’s homeless, he was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. During the first Gulf War, he was the photo editor in Saudi Arabia for all newspaper photographers embedded with U.S. military units.

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