Obama is hardly the first American President to use photography for political advantage, of course; the image of John F. Kennedy, to cite Obama's most comparable forerunner, worked like an antidote not only against Nixon but also the departing Eisenhower, from whose grandfatherly qualities the country maybe wanted a break.
With his colleagues he developed a rapid method of DNA sequencing – a way to "read" DNA – which became the forerunner for the work on mapping the human genome.
Griffith's romanticizing of the Klan and the Old South through cinema was a forerunner to the work of others who used film for propaganda means, notably Soviet directors from the end of World War I and into the Cold War and Leni Riefenstahl, the German auteur whose 1935 documentary "Triumph of the Will" celebrated Hitler's Nazi Party at its congress in Nuremberg.
The polychrome mobiles of Alexander Calder, the master of drawing in space, are perhaps the most obvious forerunners of her work.
But in 1966, Mr. Vahanian reached a wider audience when Time magazine named his book as the forerunner of several works written around that time by scholars belonging to what the theology world called the Death of God movement.
Spender believes TSE was well aware of this and that the first line was just a bit of a joke and that the whole poem should be read as a forerunner to the works of Pam Ayres.
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He spent World War II making information and propaganda films for the War Department and the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, working with the Hollywood director John Ford.
In a recent interview, the Blade Runner director announced that he had three sequels to Alien forerunner Prometheus in the works, saying he hopes the final one would link back to the original 1986 film.
