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Time Person of the Year 2008 - Barack Obama - Cover

Person of the Year 2008

Barack Obama

In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States.

 

www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear

 

Our cover portrait is by the street artist Shepard Fairey, whose roots are in the skateboarding world and whose early poster of then Senator Obama became the great populist image of the campaign. With this cover, Fairey has now created a new iconic image of the President-elect — a rich, multilayered poster that echoes but then expands on his original.

 

www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0...

 

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Uploaded on December 17, 2008