An amazing collection of candid photos of the man-who-would-become-President at display in Los Angeles’ M + B Gallery on display thru August 29, 2009.

Sure he looks square and clean-cut now, “yet even back in 1980, when Barack Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in California, he had clear-cut ideas about style and self-presentation. He grew his hair long, wore subdued, square-cut Hawaiian shirts and, as one friend said, was rarely to be seen in a closed-toe shoe. When Lisa Jack went scouting that year for subjects to pose for her photographic portrait project, another Occidental classmate suggested she call a guy then known to his friends as Barry.” (NYTimes.com)

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