Pete Souza has been the Official Chief White House Photographer for the entire tenure of the Presidency of Barack Obama. He has been a professional photographer since the 1970's and was the Washington Photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times for several years and was an official White House Photographer during the Reagan years. His work has appeared in Life and National Geographic and he is the author of several books.
"A cool refuge from the heat of a very orange sun... [Shade]
illustrate[s] the extent to which Obama's expansive ideals have
been edged out by Trump's politics of meanness and
resentment."--Shondaland
"As President Obama's photographer, Pete Souza was one of the very
finest official White House snappers. In his provocative Shade: A
Tale of Two Presidents, he contrasts pictures of the 44th incumbent
with vignettes from the administration of the 45th to caustic
effect."--Ben Schott, The Guardian
"In Shade... [Pete Souza] continues to juxtapose Mr. Obama and Mr.
Trump via images, headlines, and tweets... he's not throwing shade,
he insists--he's just telling the truth."--Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
"Pete Souza became an Instagram celebrity by documenting the White
House. Then he became an even bigger one by criticizing it."--New
York Times
"Playful yet biting... commentary on Trump's current antics... to
remind us what a president can be."--BookRiot
"Powerful... A striking, at times even hilarious book, but by the
end it leaves the reader with a profound sense of loss... Shade
drives home Obama's humanity and dignity and Trump's petty mind and
epic failings like few other documents."--Rolling Stone
"These juxtapositions of permanence and transience are ultimately
what make Shade a compelling read; powerful, memorable portraits of
an eight-year presidency stand beside headlines and tweets that
surface on Twitter feeds for a few days at most and then are
brushed aside amid new ones. The book is not just a tale of two
presidents, but a tale of two political and media landscapes."--NPR
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