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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]
First president to address the African Union while in office. [480] First president to have visited the Arctic Circle while in office. [481] First president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the location where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare in 1945. [482] First president to write a scholarly article in a scholarly journal while ...
For the first time ever, Okamoto was allowed access to the Oval Office. [2] Oliver F. Atkins was the official photographer for Richard Nixon, but was often restricted from taking photographs. [1] However, Atkins' photograph of President Nixon and Elvis Presley is the most requested from the Library of Congress. [1]
In 2015, Barack Obama was the first president to post on Twitter, now known as X, although Trump clearly revolutionized the use of social media from the Oval Office. Obama was also the first ...
This was the 18th inauguration and marked the commencement of the only four-year term of both James Buchanan as president and John C. Breckinridge as vice president. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the presidential oath of office. This was the first inauguration ceremony known to be photographed. [1]
The photographer Amon T. Joslin owned "Joslin's Gallery" located on the second floor of a building adjoining the Woodbury Drug Store, in Danville, IL. This was one of Lincoln's favorite stopping places in Vermilion County, Illinois, while he was a traveling lawyer. Joslin photographed Abraham Lincoln twice at this sitting.
It joins a host of other early photographic portraits in the NPG’s collection, including what is believed to be the earliest photograph of a US president, an 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy ...
Stoughton's iconic photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office as President following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. President John F. Kennedy with John-John in 1963. Stoughton was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on January 18, 1920. During World War II, he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit. [3]