Barak Obama: The Freshman Opening Night Reception at the MB Gallery in Los Angeles.
Mr. President in his college years.
He looks really young here
Lisa Jack the photographer
The pictures on exhibit at the MB Gallery
Twenty of the 36 pictures she took of the president are on display at the West Hollywood's MB Gallery in an exhibition that runs until July 18.
Lisa Jack is the photographer behind the pictures of what the president was like when he was just another college freshman at Occidental College -- with a partly unbuttoned Oxford shirt, a big Panama hat and puffs of cigarette smoke as his props of choice for projecting that coveted aura of post-adolescent confidence and cool.
Obama can thank Jack for keeping the roll of photographs she took of him in 1980 out of circulation until he was elected. Nine were first published in Time Magazine's December "Person of the Year" spread on Obama.
Jack rummaged for the long-ignored negatives in her Minneapolis basement early in 2008, after it became clear Obama was a serious contender for the presidency. The now President is pictured kicking back on a couch in a living room near L.A.'s Occidental College, where he and Jack were students. Jack took these photographs for a class assignment.
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