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Barack Obama was the first president to have his portrait taken with a digital camera in January 2009 by Pete Souza, the then–official White House photographer, [23] using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. [citation needed] Obama was also the first president to have 3D portraits taken, which were displayed in the Smithsonian Castle in December 2014. [24]
President Lincoln visited Gardner's studio one Sunday in February 1865, the final year of the Civil War, accompanied by the American portraitist Matthew Wilson. Wilson had been commissioned to paint the president's portrait, but because Lincoln could spare so little time to pose, the artist needed recent photographs to work from.
President Barack Obama with Will Ferrell and Viveca Paulin in 2011. The inaugural recipient of the award was Richard Pryor. [5] The first two years of the prize honoring Pryor and Jonathan Winters were taped and broadcast on Comedy Central. [5] From 2000 to 2022, the award presentations were taped for broadcast on PBS.
The 77th Tony Awards are moving to the Upper West Side and will take place at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. It’s the fourth location change in four years for Broadway’s biggest ...
2005 Kennedy Center Honorees: Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell and Tony Bennett with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, in the Blue Room at the White House, December 4, 2005. 2006 Kennedy Center Honorees: Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and Zubin Mehta with ...
Joan Bortolon said receiving the First Citizen award recently at a ceremony at Erin's Pavilion at Southwind Park reinforced for her the power of volunteering. That's why Bortolon, the president of ...
A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500, according ...
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. [1] It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. [1]