Portraits of Power

By Miss Cellania in Pictures, Politics on Dec 7, 2009 at 12:51 pm

A staff photographer for New Yorker magazine referred to only as Platon set up a studio in the United Nations building this past September to get portraits of as many world leaders as possible. For five days he took photographs of each member of the General Assembly that came to his temporary studio. Those portraits are now posted in slide show form. Click on any of them, and you can hear Platon’s story of how he got the picture, and his impressions of each president or prime minister. Link -via the Presurfer

Tags: portraits, presidents, prime ministers, united nations

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Gauldar
Dec 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Ahh right, that’s why Harper isn’t up there, he was at the Canadian Embassy (Tim Hortons) holding a press conference.

http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2009/09/23/obama-addresses-the-un-har per-shows-up-at-tim-hortons/
nifrek
Dec 7th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Fantastic! Really liked the portraits, as well as the photographer’s comments.
A
Dec 7th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I love how douchebag Harper isn’t on there… especially how he’s recently been going around the world stage like the big shot he and Canada aren’t.
pyrit
Dec 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Most of them show no teeth. Isn’t there a correlation between a closed smile and dishonesty, or, something like that?
DaveL
Dec 7th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Also, their eyes are wide apart and they have big schnozes.
Rawley
Dec 8th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Man the President of Argentina is a Babe-raham-lincoln.
gtron
Dec 8th, 2009 at 9:37 am
got all your egos in one basket…
Gorf
Dec 9th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Great portraits! Small correction, though: they are from the New Yorker, not the New York Magazine.
Gorf
Dec 9th, 2009 at 12:56 am
What a moron, it actually says New Yorker! And I even read that part twice . Sorry guys.

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