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Up Close, Personal

After meeting John Kerry at a 1964 barbecue, filmmaker-photographer George Butler (Pumping Iron) became a kind of Boswell with camera: joining Kerry on his first honeymoon, managing his first (unsuccessful) political campaign and shooting more than 6,000 photographs—so far. This September Butler will release both a documentary and a book, John Kerry: A Portrait (Bulfinch Press). TIME picked the following photographs from Butler's portfolio

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POSTED MONDAY, JULY 26, 2004

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