Hair Like Mine 2009

Date2009

DimensionsSight: 12 1/2 × 18 3/4 in. (31.8 × 47.6 cm)

Object numberN0013.2020

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Pete Souza

Pete Souza

Label TextFive-year-old Jacob Philadelphia touches the head of President Obama, after Jacob told the President that his friends said his haircut was just like the President’s. “Go ahead and touch it,” the President responded. The photograph resonated with people for a couple of reasons. One, that a young African-American kid was touching the head of a President of the United States who looked like him. But it also says something about President Obama, that at the behest of a five-year-old, he would bend over and let a kid touch his head like this.

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