Less than 12 months since Obama left office (indeed, the very moment he left his office is included), it also reads like a lesson in how fast things can change.'- Chicago Tribune 'The book, which distills the 1.9 million photographs that Souza took of Obama's eight years in the White House down to about 300 images, it as once warm and nostalgic, worshipful and respectful, sad and wistful-in a sense, not so different from the framed JFK portraits that everyday Americans hung in living rooms, right through the Nixon administration. One of the Best Books of the Year - Today, Los Angeles Times, People, Bustle.This book puts you in the White House with President Obama, and is a treasured record of a landmark era in American history. We see President Obama lead our nation through monumental challenges, comfort us in calamity and loss, share in hard-won victories, and set a singular example to “be kind and be useful,” as he would instruct his daughters. They also reveal the spirit of the extraordinary man who became our President. Souza’s photographs, with the behind-the-scenes captions and stories that accompany them, communicate the pace and power of our nation’s highest office. Together they document the most consequential hours of the Presidency - including the historic image of President Obama and his advisors in the Situation Room during the bin Laden mission - alongside unguarded moments with the President’s family, his encounters with children, interactions with world leaders and cultural figures, and more. Obama: An Intimate Portrait reproduces more than 300 of Souza’s most iconic photographs with fine-art print quality in an oversize collectible format.

Souza captured nearly two million photographs of President Obama, in moments highly classified and disarmingly candid. Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza’s behind-the-scenes images and stories in this #1 New York Times bestseller - with a foreword from the President himself.ĭuring Barack Obama’s two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else - and he photographed them all.

Obama by Pete Souza