Portraits of the President as a Young Man

He squats in the corner, over a slab of grating, looking down his nose through squinted eyes and pointing his chin at the camera. Sassy. The college freshman wears a Panama hat and dangles a cigarette, while the lightswitch above him gives a diagonal zip to the composition. That’s “Barry” Obama as captured by his Occidental College classmate Lisa Jack in 1980. Tomorrow, Jack’s photos, along with a blow-up of her original contact sheet, go on view in “Barack Obama: The Freshman,” an exhibition at the M+B

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