QUICK TAKES - March 28, 2009

“Barack Obama: The Freshman� is a photographic exhibition that’s coming to L.A. -- the city where, 29 years ago, a 20-year-old aspiring photographer asked a fellow Occidental College student to pose for a session because, well, she thought he looked pretty cool.

And then he grew up to be president. Who knew?

Lisa Jack, who grew up to be a clinical psychologist and an assistant professor of psychology at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, will have her much-belated debut solo show as a photographer May 28 to July 18 at M+B Gallery in West Hollywood. On display: the 36 images of Obama she captured on a single roll of film.

Nine of the images from Jack’s 1980 shoot first became public in Time magazine’s Dec. 29 “Person of the Year� cover spread on Obama, under the headline, “Obama: The College Years.�

-- Mike Boehm