The Atlantic Interview: Pete Souza

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Pete Souza spent eight years photographing the Obama White House, an effort he now chronicles his new book Obama: An Intimate Portrait. Souza joins The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to share the stories behind his most famous photos: a 5-year-old boy patting the president's head, the tense scene in the Situation Room during the mission against Osama bin Laden, and many more. What was it like to be a fly on the wall in the West Wing? (View the photos discussed here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Welcome to the Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, and this week I spoke with Pete Sousa.
0:42.2	There's a chance you may not recognize his name, but you'd certainly recognize his photographs.
0:46.9	Pete was the official White House photographer for Barack Obama, and he documented the president throughout his eight years in office.
0:53.2	Recently, Pete came out with a book
0:54.5	photographs from that time entitled Obama, an intimate portrait. When I spend time interviewing
0:59.3	President Obama or traveling with the president, Pete was always right there in the background,
1:03.5	shooting away. He was everywhere, and yet also, as we discuss, kind of nowhere. He managed to
1:10.2	make himself invisible even while documenting
1:12.1	the presidency in all of its manifestations. So it was really a fun thing to sit down with Pete and
1:19.1	hear what it was like to be an intimate observer of an entire presidency.
1:26.6	Pete Sousa, welcome to the Atlantic interview.
1:31.0	Thanks for having me on.
1:32.1	Oh, no, it's great.
1:33.0	I haven't seen you since President Obama was president.
1:36.1	Remember that period in American history when President Obama was president?
1:39.7	It was not that long ago.
1:41.3	No, really? Are you sure about that?
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