The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office (2010) [N/A]
Featuring:
Salvatore Vecchio, Samantha Appleton, Ollie Atkins
Written by:
Jody Lenkoski
Jody Schiliro
Directed by:
Jody Lenkoski
Release Date:
November 24, 2010
Original Title:
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Alternate Titles:
The Obama White House: Through the Lens
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 52
The documentary covers fifty years inside The White House.
As the 44th president's chief photographer, Pete Souza is never far behind President Obama. Now in the National Geographic Special, The President's Photographer: 50 Years in the Oval Office, viewers can follow Souza, and those who came before him, for a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency. Offering a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. The presidential photographer's job is two-fold: one, taking photographs of the president greeting dignitaries, visitors and guests; and two, perhaps more challenging and gratifying: documenting for history every possible aspect of the presidency, both official events, backstage happenings and "off-duty" private moments. "Creating a good photographic archive for history is the most important part of my job, creating this archive that will live on," says Souza. "This is not so much photojournalism as photo-history." Souza and his staff produce up to 20,000 pictures a week.
