Alecbanks While conventional wisdom and dwindling magazine and newspaper sales suggest the print industry is dying, the legacy of reporting and editorial imagery will live on forever – perhaps treasures for the next generation for those who built great wonders with photographs and the pen instead of blueprints. Image-driven apps and social media tools have made visual sharing popular. In a similar vein, we looked into the archives of some of the world’s most well-known journals to select photographs, stories, and histories about their origins for a compilation spanning modern-day catastrophes to uplifting captures. Our famous magazine covers of all time.
Editorial winner
They would give M company its orders in one, two, or three weeks, those dim Olympian entities who allegedly threw cards into an IBM machine or a hat to determine where each soldier in M would go next, who would stay in the U.S., who would live softly in Europe, and who would fight and die in Vietnam.
Nonsense. M was worried about an inspection, not what was in the cards. First inspection for the young Negro captain. M was polishing its barracks floor, glittering its black military boots, brushing the dust off its weapon barrels with tweezers, and unscrewing its eardrums as usual this evening. M thought the fragrance of floor wax and gun grease was woven into Army green’s cloth. Sergeant Milett gave the company a do-or-die order. “Get clean for me,” Milett implored M. “I’m married with three kids.
I leave and return at night. Since yesterday, we haven’t spoken. Maybe they’re dead.” Leaning against a double bed and reaching through the iron frame. “Well, I fed them enough, I shouldn’t have to worry,” he laughed before saying, “I work for a boss below with chains on his collar.” Don’t make a jackass of me before tomorrow’s inspection.” Full story here. 1968-06-21 Time “Gun/Gun America’s Attacked.” With a cover by Roy Lichtenstein, the magazine aimed to shock readers about gun ownership in the U.S. in the wake of Robert F.
Kennedy’s killing two weeks before to its release. It continues to be relevant because it targets lax gun control rules.
States and localities have 20,000 gun laws, but only two are federal. The 1934 National Firearms Act taxed gangster-style firearms like machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The 1938 Federal Firearms Act prohibits interstate gun transfers to criminals. “The demented, the disturbed, the hardened criminal and the imprisoned, the addict and the alcoholic,” as the President phrased it, can order guns by mail with no questions asked.
Disputed
Adolph Hitler was given Time Magazine’s Man of the Year award in 1933 “for having the most influence on the year’s news”” ” Adolf Hitler strutted over a cowering Europe like a conqueror. “Even though the Führer brought 10,500,000 additional people under his control (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens), he was not the Man of 1938. Japan also added tens of millions of Chinese. Hitler became the greatest threat to democracy and freedom in 1938.”
Time magazine “Does God Exist?” The April issue was the first without a cover photo, focusing instead on a provocative headline. Otto Fuerbringer recognized a chance to capitalize on the counterculture feeling of the period with the “God is dead” cover. Los Angeles Times dubbed it one of “10 magazine covers that shook the globe.”
Sexiest
Darine Playboy Stern: Richard Fergley photographed Darine Stern for the first Playboy cover. Also, Marge Simpson’s November 2009 cover used the photo’s composition in the most iconic magazine covers.
Rolling Stone, 9/93 Janet
Patrick Demarchelier’s topless portrait of Janet Jackson was developed without Rolling Stone’s in-house experts. According to the Los Angeles Times, Jackson supplied Rolling Stone album artwork photographs for its September 1993 cover story. The magazine’s director of photography, Laurie Kratochvil, said, “The image is really striking.” Esquire, November 2004 A-J
The editorial depicted an actress wanting to reinvent herself after being named Sexiest Woman Alive in 2004. Late and unexpected, she comes as a puff of smoke in the Hotel Bel-Air lobby bar.
She stares at me with blue eyes. Her chestnut hair and lovely lips frame her porcelain face. She’s smaller and skinnier than I imagined. She’s like Amelia Earhart, wearing a camel overcoat and appearing rakish.
Today’s the second meeting. She’s slept in three hotels since we last met: two in Beverly Hills and one in New York City, where she says she went for a business conference and because her son likes Central Park.
Maddox Jolie was adopted in 2002. The boy loves planes like his mother. She told her 2-year-old he’d learn to fly. First flight: on his third birthday. “Our new plane,” she says. She went solo in August art director first african american woman.
Greatest
Special Edition 1969 Life Earth-Moon-Earth. In our 24/7 news cycle, it’s unthinkable that we’d have to wait to learn about anything that would alter how we see the world, as described in a Space Race retrospective. Life published the now-iconic shot two weeks after the 1969 moon landing cover image cover vogue.
1997-04-14 Time I’m homosexual. Ellen Degeneres came out as gay in 1997, the height of her career. After the declaration, her show ran for only one more season (with a parental advisory for lesbian storylines), and she didn’t work in the industry for three years.
“I loathe the term ‘in the closet,'” says Ellen DeGeneres, whose all-pants attire and uneasy chemistry with male ingenues attracted viewers’ and reporters’ interest before her sexuality became a national fixation. “Until recently, I hated the term lesbian,” she says. “It’s so common that it no longer worries me. Lesbians sounded sick controversial cover in national geographic.
The New Yorker – 9/11 silhouette
The September 24, 2001 cover by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly was chosen one of the greatest 10 magazine covers of the previous 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The cover appears black at first, but closer scrutiny reveals the World Trade Center buildings in a darker tint.
“The Shocking Reality of Vietnam War,” Life, 11/26/1965. Paul Schutzer’s photo of a Vietcong prisoner with his eyes and mouth taped shut is a sobering memory of the Vietnam War and a poignant homage to Schutzer, who died while documenting the 1967 Six-Day War.