Photo Op '08: Non-Stop Barack

We now return to the Barack Obama press honeymoon. The news media apologize for the brief interruption.

* With Hillary losing to simple math, Barack rocks back on the covers of Time, Newsweek and The Economist this week. Time tapped Aurora photographer Callie Shell, Newsweek has Charles Ommanney, and The Economist runs a photo by... who the heck knows, they never run credits. (Orphan work alert!)

* Obama also beams from the June issue of Esquire, which landed on the PDN news desk this morning. Something about this cover struck a familiar note, and not just because we see a lot of Platon photos around here. Oh, here's why. It looks just like the December 10, 2007 cover of Time:

Congrats to Platon for scoring two major, major covers with the same shoot (his archive is syndicated by CPI). We wonder how the Esquire editors failed to get an exclusive Obama portrait for their cover. Awesome type treatment notwithstanding, are they honestly satisfied making the same visual statement Time made six months ago?

* Moving on. Here's our latest graph charting the number of photo hits on the news wires each week for the three major candidates. The gap continues to widen between John McCain and the Democrats, but look for that to change once Hillary finally goes away and this campaign gets cranked up the next level. If you think they're spending a lot of money now, just wait.

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What's up with Obama's deformed head in the Esquire photo? It doesn't look that way in the Time photo. Bad photoshopping job?