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Scout Tufankjian: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama Inauguration Night, 2009
Chromogenic print, 2009, signed and numbered 1/25 …
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Scout Tufankjian: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama Inauguration Night, 2009
Chromogenic print, 2009, signed and numbered 1/25 on a label from Danziger Projects, NY.
20 x 24 in. (sheet), 22 x 29 in. (frame).
Provenance: A Contemporary Vision: Works from the Melva Bucksbaum Collection Sold to Benefit Art for Access at Bennington College
Scout Tufankjian is an Armenian-American photojournalist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. She is well known for her photos of American President Barack Obama during his campaign leading up to his presidency. She is also known for her photojournalism work on the Armenian diaspora.
She was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Armenian-American father, Allan, a lawyer, and an Irish-American mother, Betty. She grew up in the south shore towns of Whitman and Scituate, both in Massachusetts. As a child she was separated from the Armenian community in Massachusetts. Her knowledge of the her Armenian heritage came from reading magazines and newspapers that she found at her grandparents home. She started shooting photographs in Northern Ireland at age 18. She attended and earned a B.A. in Political Science and Government from Yale University in 2000. She speaks English and Arabic.
From 2006 to 2008 she covered Senator Barack Obama's campaign for President of the United States, and was the only independent journalist to follow him from the run up to his announcing his candidacy through his victory on election night. Tufankjian took more than 12,000 photographs throughout the campaign. She released a book featuring a selection of the photographs titled Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign in December 2008, which sold out its initial 55,000 copy run a month before it was released. In 2010 she went to cover the Haiti Earthquake and its aftermath. From 2011 to 2012 Tufankjian went to Egypt to photograph The Egyptian Revolution. From this time she has Photos categorized as The Egyptian Revaluation, The Detainees, Along the Barricades, Endgame, The Egyptian Elections and Egypt's Salafi Community. In August 2012, Tufankjian took a photo of Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama hugging each other. The photo was taken in Dubuque, IA in Aug15th. Instead of focusing on the Obamas as political figures, Tufankjian focused on them as a couple. The Obama campaign staff sent this picture out on the official Obama Facebook and Twitter accounts the night of the election, 6 Nov. 2012. This picture became the most liked photo on Facebook and most retweeted tweet in history.
In 2015 Tufankjian published in commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian genocide, There is only the Earth: Images for Armenian Diaspora. Tufankjian took 6 years and traveled to 5 different continents gathering stories and photos of the Arminian people who were killed and displaced from their homes by the Turkish Ottoman government between 1915 and 1923. Tufankjian traveled to Ethiopia, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Argentina, France, United States, Hong Kong, and Canada in search of Armenian communities, photographing Armenian lives around the world. In showing how the Armenian people survived Tufankjian's photos capture everyday life, the from religious to the romantic to the familial.
Works
Images from the Middle East (2006)
Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign (2008)
Haiti 2010 The Haitian Earthquake, A Tale of Two Camps
Egypt 2011-2012: A Year of Revaluation
There Is Only the Earth: Images from the Armenian Diaspora Project, Melcher Media, 2015. A photojournalist's study of the Armenian diaspora on its 100th anniversary
Commissioned work: The HALO Trust: 100 Women in Demining (2017)
Ongoing Projects Karabakh: 2002-2020
Danziger Gallery is a leading photography dealer. they have shown Robert Frank, Henri Cartier Bresson, Alice Mann, Evelyn Hofer, Petra Cortright, Enoc Perez and Brett Weston.
Scout Tufankjian has had photographs published in every major newspaper and news magazine, including Newsweek, Time Magazine, The New York Times, People Magazine, The Guardian, Elle, Esquire, Essence, Men's Vogue, ESPN The Magazine, US News & World Report, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Portfolio, Fortune, Newsday, The New York Post, the New York Daily News, Slate, The Times of London, Stern, Der Spiegel, and many others. She lives in Brooklyn and has a BA in Political Science from Yale. Tufankjian's web presentation of her Obama photos has had more than 11 million views to date, making it one of the most trafficked photographer's sites ever.
Barack Hussein Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States.
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- Dimensions
- 29ʺW × 1ʺD × 22ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Contemporary
- Art Subjects
- Portrait
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 2000 - 2009
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- C Print
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Good good. frame might have light wear. Good good. frame might have light wear. less
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