On Tuesday morning, they chose quintessential American scenery: the Statue of Liberty backdrop, the flags perched on each side of the stage, and a business-savvy campaign logo to boot.
His television appearances are marked by a backdrop of the flag and the Constitution.
The stage featured a backdrop with the flags of all 50 states and a half-dozen American flags.
On Friday, the optics were warmer: Xi and Abe smiled and clasped hands against a backdrop of the flags of China and Japan during the first summit meeting between the leaders of Asia's two richest economies in seven years.
Croatian flags hang at regular intervals, graffiti declares local loyalty to Zagreb's leading football club, and several cafes have posters of Praljak with the backdrop of the Croatian flag and the slogan "our hero".
In a sometimes bizarre 45-minute speech on Friday night, which opened with the unfurling of a new "Les Deplorables" battlefield flag backdrop, the Republican nominee went off-script to call for his opponent's bodyguards to "disarm immediately" – adding, "Let's see what happens to her".
But apart from a famous 1974 portrait of the French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, shot against the backdrop of the French flag, Lartigue's color images have remained largely unseen.
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Liberty flags featured that word on a variety of backdrops; the Pine Tree flag floated the slogan "An Appeal To Heaven" over a depiction of a pine tree.
The bomb blasts took place at the finish line of a grueling event for most -- an achievement by any measure -- against the backdrop of national flags representing the many participating countries in the event.
