Mariana Cook

Mariana Cook (born 1955) is an American fine art photographer specializing in black and white photography and gelatin silver prints.

Her work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Musee d'Art Moderne.

She is perhaps best known for her black and white portrait, ''A Couple in Chicago'', which captures a young Barack and Michelle Obama in their 1996 Hyde Park apartment, and the accompanying interview for ''The New Yorker.'' Provided by Wikipedia