All images and text © Kevin Moloney

Photographed on assignment for The New York Times


A pedestrian glances back at a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama at a sidewalk stand for author Rene Reid as she sells her book on Denver's 16th Street Mall. Denver scrambled to welcome an estimated 50,000 delegates, volunteers, protesters and others to the convention.



During the nomination roll call vote, California delegates pass their vote at Denver's Pepsi Center in order for New York and Sen. Hillary Clinton to put Barack Obama over the top as the Democratic candidate for president.



Delegates clap and celebrate the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president at Denver's Pepsi Center. Former primary election rival Hillary Clinton called for Obama's nomination by acclamation.



Grace Yu, a delegate from New York, wipes a tear during a short Tom Hanks film about veterans broadcast between speeches at the Democratic National Convention at Denver's Pepsi Center. Yu, holding daughter Maia Reddy, 2, recently lost a friend in the war in Afghanistan.



Lacking seats, Connie Jamison, of Orangeburg, S.C., sits on the floor at the Democratic National Convention at Denver's Pepsi Center before Sen. Joseph Biden's speech accepting nomination for vice president.


All images and text © Kevin Moloney

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