And What Better Way To Make Him Seem More Human And Less Ego-Driven Than A Photo Exhibit At Grand Central Station?
He won by a landslide, so what more can he want? Why not immortalize the campaign in a photo exhibition for posterity:
Posted: December 4th, 2006 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, Tragicomic, Ironic, Obnoxious Or AbsurdEliot Spitzer will take over Grand Central Terminal next month with a photo exhibition of images from his campaign.
“The Making of a Governor” will chronicle the stump speeches, handshakes, autographs and exhaustion of running for office — in a series of large black-and-white photos intended to evoke the iconic images of the Kennedy years.
The exhibit is to run Jan. 7-23 at Vanderbilt Hall and may then tour the state.
Photographer Marius Muresanu said he approached Spitzer with the idea after seeing one of Jacques Lowe’s famous images of President Kennedy campaigning.
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He said he spent eight months on the campaign trail and was granted full access — even though the governor-elect has been “known not to love photographers.”
Muresanu is still scouring through thousands of negatives to decide which prints make the cut.
MTA officials said the Spitzer campaign paid $37,500 to rent the space.