Lisa Jack, a professor at Augsburg College, and Barack Obama were classmates at Occidental College in the 1980s. An exhibit of photos she took then are now on display in Los Angeles at the M+B Gallery, West Hollywood. [via LATimes]
Jack rummaged for the long-ignored negatives in her Minneapolis basement early in 2008, after it became clear Obama was a serious contender for the presidency. The callow kid kicking back on a couch in a living room near L.A.’s Occidental College, where he and Jack were students, may not have been the image the Obama campaign wanted to project. “I’m sure Hillary would have paid a fortune for them: ‘Is this who you want picking up the phone at 3 a.m.?’ ” Jack said from Minneapolis, her discourse earthy, humorous and freewheeling, sometimes salty.
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