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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 have a surviving photograph of him. [72] First president elected despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent. [25]: 48 First president to not win a majority of electoral votes. [73] First president to adopt a short haircut instead of long hair tied in a queue. [74]
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]
Video: Former president Barack Obama delivers virtual commencement address ... making it impossible for a photograph of the first U.S. president to exist. In January 2009, Barack Obama became the ...
Obama was also the first sitting president to appear on a late-night comedy program as president in 2016, although John F. Kennedy appeared on the Jack Paar show as a presidential candidate in 1960.
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]
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.
The Washington, DC institution acquired a rare daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley Madison, wife of fourth US president James Madison, for $456,000.