An upcoming PBS documentary (November 24, The President's Photographer: 50 Years in the Oval Office)could be used both by American History teachers as well as those who teach visual literacy.
An excerpt from the program's press release says: "To a documentary photographer, every presidency has defining stories, and those images are often how we remember a president."
The documentary also has a companion book: http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/browse/productDetail.jsp?productId=6200676
Some images from the book can be found on Amazon's web page for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Photographer-Fifty-Inside-Office/dp/1426206763/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289145935&sr=1-1
More images from the White House can be seen on the White House's official Flickr site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
Note: just this week, former President Bush expressed regret over an official White House photo taken of him in a plane that flew over areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina
CBS' Sunday Morning broadcast (November 6) also had a segment on Pete Souza, the current White House photographer.
Coincidentally, I wrote a chapter on visual literacy in politics in my book: Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy.
Frank Baker
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