Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Flip Side


The other side of the hug. (Thx Heather G.)

From Slate...
When Barack Obama won re-election, his campaign tweeted out a photo of him and Michelle hugging, along with the phrase “Four more years.” The image quickly went viral, breaking records on Twitter and Facebook.

Tufankjian wasn’t the only one shooting at that August rally in Iowa. Photographer David Burnett was there too, shooting for People, and when the now-famous hug took place, he was standing on the far edge of the stage, opposite where Tufankjian was located. He snapped a photo that shows us the other side of the first couple’s embrace. 

Burnett said by email that he was surprised when he first saw Tufankjian’s victory photo, because “it didn’t seem, on first blush, to have been shot in November. Then I read the fine print, and saw it was indeed shot in Iowa in August. The light went on in my head, and I looked through my files, finding what I think is the exact moment, from the other side of the podium.”

The backstory on the original photo is here along with a couple other memorable pics.

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