Obamiconography
by David Sommerstein on January 22nd, 2009
Ever since his primary campaign, President Obama has generated a perhaps unsurpassed iconography. Designers for Obama. DJs for Obama. We need not mention T- shirt makers for Obama. (Brian Mann asks, “what’s next? Obama action figures in Happy Meals?”) Stephen Colbert vamped on all this in the funniest way Tuesday night.
Anyway, the ultimate icon of this President will remain the Shepard Fairey image. Terry Gross talked to him about it on Tuesday.
I just ran into a very cool blog post tracking down the origin of the photo that inspired the image. And guess who may have inspired that Presidential, visionary, future-looking gaze?
