01-18-2009 "FACES OF A NATION" THE OPENING CEREMONIE'S, 44TH PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
"Faces of a Nation"
Sunday marked the opening ceremonies for the 2009 Inauguration.
An estimated half a million people attended the opening ceremonies of the inauguration at the Lincoln Memorial. For this historical moment in our nation's history I set out to photojournalistically document the people who came out to share in this monumental event.
President-elect Obama will break new technological ground by being the first to use text-messaging and YouTube as part his festivities. James Polk plowed a path in 1845 by holding the first inaugural to be covered by telegraph, while James Buchanan’s inaugural in 1857 was the first known to be photographed. Calvin Coolidge’s inaugural in 1925 was the first covered nationally by radio, and Harry S. Truman’s inaugural in 1949 was the first to be televised nationally.
Mr. Obama is to take his oath upon the same Bible that Lincoln used. And the president-elect said last week that he had been studying Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address and its stirring call for national unity.
That's where I come in, and here are some of my views of the opening ceremonies.
Yes, there were celebrities there like Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Stevie Wonder, Martin Luther King III, and Denzel Washington, just to name a few. But that's not what it was about for me! President Obama spoke to some very simple yet magnificently important things, again he spoke to the need for unification of our people, and I will paraphrase as we have heard from many before "There are no red states, there are no blue states, what this is all about is the need to be The United States!
What I saw and what I felt on Sunday is beyond words and I hope that my images can help tell the story of this new chapter in our history. Half a million people, smiling, crying, laughing. and all in all.... getting along. I met people from all over the country who came to share in this historical moment and here in this gallery is my vision of the people, you and I, the ones who have everything on the line and who, from what I could feel on Sunday, finally have what I know to be one of the most important things in life.............HOPE!!
Thanks for taking the time to view my gallery!
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT AND/OR SIGN MY GUESTBOOK!
Peace & Blessings,
Stuart
Read MoreSunday marked the opening ceremonies for the 2009 Inauguration.
An estimated half a million people attended the opening ceremonies of the inauguration at the Lincoln Memorial. For this historical moment in our nation's history I set out to photojournalistically document the people who came out to share in this monumental event.
President-elect Obama will break new technological ground by being the first to use text-messaging and YouTube as part his festivities. James Polk plowed a path in 1845 by holding the first inaugural to be covered by telegraph, while James Buchanan’s inaugural in 1857 was the first known to be photographed. Calvin Coolidge’s inaugural in 1925 was the first covered nationally by radio, and Harry S. Truman’s inaugural in 1949 was the first to be televised nationally.
Mr. Obama is to take his oath upon the same Bible that Lincoln used. And the president-elect said last week that he had been studying Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address and its stirring call for national unity.
That's where I come in, and here are some of my views of the opening ceremonies.
Yes, there were celebrities there like Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Stevie Wonder, Martin Luther King III, and Denzel Washington, just to name a few. But that's not what it was about for me! President Obama spoke to some very simple yet magnificently important things, again he spoke to the need for unification of our people, and I will paraphrase as we have heard from many before "There are no red states, there are no blue states, what this is all about is the need to be The United States!
What I saw and what I felt on Sunday is beyond words and I hope that my images can help tell the story of this new chapter in our history. Half a million people, smiling, crying, laughing. and all in all.... getting along. I met people from all over the country who came to share in this historical moment and here in this gallery is my vision of the people, you and I, the ones who have everything on the line and who, from what I could feel on Sunday, finally have what I know to be one of the most important things in life.............HOPE!!
Thanks for taking the time to view my gallery!
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT AND/OR SIGN MY GUESTBOOK!
Peace & Blessings,
Stuart
