Photography We Can Believe In

Callie Shell has been following and photographing Barack Obama for Time since the beginning of the campaign. You can see some of her work here and, especially, here. I particularly love the photo of Obama doing a pull-up moments before delivering a speech. There’s a matter-of-fact coolness about it. Glamour too, as Virginia Postrel could doubtless confirm. Actually, the Obama who appears in – or is presented by – many of Shell’s pictures is, to my mind, strikingly reminiscent of a star such as, say, Paul Newman.