January 26, 2012Outside the Frame: Here's a little background on this widely reported moment of President Barack Obama talking with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday. The story has become one of the most popular of the day, and AP has this exclusive photo made by staff photojournalist Haraz N. Ghanbari.
Washington Assistant Chief of Bureau for Photos J. David Ake notes: "It appears Haraz has the only picture of this exchange because he followed the first rule of covering the president, 'Never take your lens off of the man when he is in public.' Ghanbari stuck with the principle, and this picture is the payoff. It appears all over the Internet and cable TV today."
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Here is the original photo caption:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer points during an intense conversation with President Barack Obama after he arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz. Asked moments later what the conversation was about, Brewer, a Republican, said: "He was a little disturbed about my book." Brewer recently published a book, "Scorpions for Breakfast," something of a memoir of her years growing up and defends her signing of Arizona's controversial law cracking down on illegal immigrants, which Obama opposes. Obama was objecting to Brewer's description of a meeting he and Brewer had at the White House, where she described Obama as lecturing her. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

