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Pete Souza, Reagan and Obama’s White House Photographer | Design Matters

The TED Interview

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How Did You Parse Through the Two Million Images That You'd Taken Over the Obama Administration?

The book o bama soared to number one on the new york times best sellar list and is one of the best selling photography books of all time. You needed to be able to pars through the two million images you'd taken over the eight years of the obama administration down to the 300 that were included in the book. It was not easy to do, and ultimately it just became a gut check on what i thought were the right set of pictures. "I'm sure that if i weighed another ten years to try to put together the same book, it would be slightly different," he says.

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