POTUS’s History Lessons

Summary

It started with a BlackBerry—that now-defunct wireless device and precursor to present-day smartphones. Photographer and author Peter Adams was interested in how consumer products influence politics, and kept returning to the “BarackBerry,” the vintage silver BlackBerry that President Barack Obama had used during his administration, which was modified for security reasons. How, Adams thought, can I locate and photograph that phone? As his idea grew into a yearslong project, Adams paid visits to, and photographed presidential ephemera from, the Presidential Libraries operated by the U.S…

Description from New Republic.