40 Best Magazine Covers (40 photos)

abgsedapmalam · Post time 10-4-2012 10:41 PM

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Good morning! How assures us the American Association of Magazine Publishers, the most decadent time for advertising design magazine covers were the 1980s. Recently, this society has conducted a large survey, trying to figure out the "golden age" of magazine covers. As it turned out, the heyday of the best magazine covers were the sixties of last century. In the ranking of the best covers of the world were just 11 works of that period. I propose to review them and other top magazine covers in the last forty years.

40. National Geographic, October 1978
Photo gorilla with a camera.

39. Glamour, August 1968
The first photo black girl on the cover of national magazine for women.

38. Fast Company, August / September 1997
Logo Image of You.

37. Details, February 1989
Photo pop singer, actress and songwriter Cyndi Lauper (Cyndi Lauper).

36. People September 15, 1997
Black and white photograph of Princess Diana (Diana, Princess of Wales).

35. New York, June 8, 1970
"Freedom for Leonard Bernstein!" (Note - an American composer, pianist and conductor)

34. Wired, June 1997
Image colored apple - logo Apple - in the barbed wire, and c the inscription: "Pray."

33. Newsweek, July 30, 1973
Photo dedicated to the Watergate scandal.

32. Vogue, May 24, 2004
Photo of actress Nicole Kidman (Nicole Kidman), standing with his back to the viewer in a luxurious dress.

31. Newsweek, November 20, 2000
Collage on elections in the U.S.: a part of the face, the right belongs to Bush, the second part, the left - Gore.

30. Fortune, October 1, 2001
Man covered with ashes, after the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11.

29. Playboy, October 1971
The black model posing on a chair with a back as a symbol of the magazine - the head of rabbit.

28. Life, April 16, 1965
Black and white photography dedicated to the war in Vietnam.

27. Entertainment Weekly, May 2, 2003

Photo of naked member of the group Dixie Chicks.

26. People, March 4, 1974
Photo of American actress Mia Farrow (Mia Farrow), biting a strand of pearls.

25. Time, September 14, 2001
Photo of the Twin Towers at the time of the terrorist attacks.

24. Interview, December 1972
Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol), photographing model Grace Jones (Grace Jones) for a Christmas release.

23. The Nation, November 13, 2000
Caricature of George W. Bush (George Bush).

22. George, October / November 1995
Cindy Crawford (Cindy Crawford), dressed as George Washington (George Washington).

21. Life, November 26, 1965
Photo Viet Cong prisoner with plastered tape eyes and mouth.

abgsedapmalam · Post time 10-4-2012 10:42 PM

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20. Blue, October 1997
Man diving.

19. Esquire, December 2000
Photo smiling Bill Clinton (Bill Clinton).

18. ESPN, June 29, 1998
Photo bouncing on white Michael Jordan (Michael Jordan).

17. Time, June 21, 1968
Figure hands with the pistol and the inscription: "Guns in America."

16. The Economist, 10-16 September 1994
Photo of two camels, caught in sexual intercourse, and the inscription: "Problems with the merger."

15. Harper `s Bazaar, April 1965
Model's face, his eyes through the circle, cut in a sheet of pink cardboard.

14. The New Yorker, December 10, 2001
The ironic card "Yorkistana" with the names of New York City in the Middle East style.

13. Life, 1969
Issue devoted to the landing Americans on the moon.

12. Time, April 8, 1966

Cover with the inscription: "God is dead?"

11. Life, April 30, 1965
The image of the human fetal membranes.

10. National Geographic, June 1985
Photo of Afghan refugee girl.

9. Harper `s Bazaar, September 1992
Photo fashion models Linda Evangelista (Linda Evangelista) with the inscription: "Come in an era of elegance."

Eight. Esquire, October 1966
Black cover with the inscription: "Oh, we hit a little girl."

7. National Lampoon, January 1973
Picture a dog with its oversight of the temple with a pistol and an inscription: "If you do not buy this magazine we'll kill this dog."

6. The New Yorker, September 24, 2001
Black cover, a symbol of the tragedy of September 11.

Five. Esquire, May 1969
Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol), drowning in tomato soup pot Campbell.

4. The New Yorker, March 29, 1976
Picture of Saul Steinberg (Saul Steinberg), representing New York.

Three. Esquire, April 1968
Photo of Mohammed Ali (Muhammad Ali), pierced with arrows - in the manner of the canonical story of the holy Sebastian.

Two. Vanity Fair, August 1991
Photo of pregnant Demi Moore (Demi Moore).

A. Rolling Stone, January 22, 1981
Nude photo of John Lennon (John Lennon), embracing Yoko Ono dressed (Yoko Ono).

sosimple · Post time 10-4-2012 11:35 PM

pelikkkkkkkkkk

Artemesiaa · Post time 11-4-2012 12:05 AM

Wow betul2 making statement. Tapi yang paling tak lupa cover magazine National Geografik yang ada gambar afgan girls tu.

olaoli · Post time 11-4-2012 12:09 AM

kenapa aku rasa cover yoko ono and john lennon paling gross?

newyork · Post time 11-4-2012 05:12 AM

yg last sekali tu mcm happa daaa..

HaMiZiE · Post time 11-4-2012 10:38 PM

Reply 4# Artemesiaa

yup .. agrees... kuat kat NGC, the searching for that afghan girl after years... very touching story

obical · Post time 11-4-2012 10:41 PM

last sekali tu pelik sikit....

KimoraHakim · Post time 12-4-2012 01:42 PM

pic yoko ono tu paling palik..hahah

dak_ker · Post time 12-4-2012 02:02 PM

Reply Artemesiaa

yup .. agrees... kuat kat NGC, the searching for that afghan girl after years. ...
HaMiZiE Post at 11-4-2012 22:38

cite ape pasal afghan girl ni?

changkatlobak · Post time 12-4-2012 06:26 PM

memang menarik

HaMiZiE · Post time 12-4-2012 07:53 PM

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cite ape pasal afghan girl ni?
dak_ker Post at 12-4-2012 14:02

Gegeh tol aku search story ni ... sebab malas nak menaip

How They Found National Geographic's "Afghan Girl"

David Braun
National Geographic News
Updated March 7, 2003

This story was first published a year ago, in March 2002, when the National Geographic Society announced that the "Afghan Girl" had been found.

A National Geographic EXPLORER documentary airing in the United States on Sunday, March 9, 2003, tells the whole story, including an interview with Sharbat Gula.

She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins, and even rugs, but she didn't know it. Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes.

The mysterious Afghan girl whose direct gaze has intrigued the West for so long is Sharbat Gula. She lives in a remote region of Afghanistan with her husband and three daughters.

Sharbat was located nearly two decades after her picture appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985. She had no idea her face had become an icon, said Steve McCurry, the photographer who made the famous portrait for National Geographic in 1984, and who tried to find her again during many subsequent trips he made to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

McCurry's photo of the girl was selected as the cover of National Geographic 100 Best Pictures.

In January 2002, a National Geographic team returned to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan, where Sharbat Gula was originally photographed, to search for her. She was identified through a series of contacts that led to her brother and husband, who agreed to ask her if she was willing to be interviewed.

Sharbat has been photographed on only two occasions: in 1984 and at the reunion with Steve McCurry this year. She had never seen her famous portrait before it was shown to her in January.

"This is the face that so captivated not only National Geographic readers but also anyone who saw her image around the world," said Boyd Matson, host of the National Geographic television show EXPLORER, who was with the group that met with Gula.
"We've known her face, but we've not known her story, not even her name," he said.

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Final Search

National Geographic set out to make one last concerted effort to find the "Afghan girl" before the refugee camp in Pakistan where she had last been seen was demolished.From the camp, the trail wound through several villages and into at least one dead end, until someone recognized the girl on the cover of National Geographic and said he knew her brother.

"The second I saw the color of her brother's eyes, I knew we had the right family," said Matson.

Because Sharbat Gula lives a traditional Muslim life behind the veil, she was not allowed to meet men outside her family. But the Geographic team was given permission to send a female associate producer to meet Sharbat and photograph her face.

Matson said that when he compared the photograph of the woman with that of the girl, he was certain it was the same person. "The irises of the eyes, the moles and scar on the face—all indicated this was the person we were looking for," he said.

Still, to make sure Sharbat Gula was the girl who had been photographed 17 years earlier, the EXPLORER team obtained verification through iris-scanning technology and face-recognition techniques used by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

After Sharbat's family granted permission for her to meet with the man who photographed her 17 years ago, McCurry knew immediately, even after so many years, that he had found her again. "Her eyes are as haunting now as they were then," he said.
"She remembered me, primarily because she had never been photographed before I made the image of her in 1984, or since then," he said.

Sharbat Gula recalled the experience of being photographed as a child, she told McCurry, because she remembered how her head covering was full of holes after being scorched by a cooking fire.

When they met again, McCurry told Sharbat her image had become famous as a symbol of the Afghan people. "I don't think she was particularly interested in her personal fame," McCurry said. "But she was pleased when we said she had come to be a symbol of the dignity and resilience of her people."

The award-winning photographer said his original image of Sharbat had seized the imagination of so many people around the world because her face, particularly her eyes, expressed pain and resilience as well as strength and beauty.

Sharbat Tells Her Story
When Sharbat agreed to have her picture taken for the second time in her life, she came out from the secrecy of her veil to tell her story. She wanted the people around the world who knew her face to know that she survived the refugee camp in Pakistan.

She married and had four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. She lives in obscurity, according to the customs and traditions of her culture and religion.

A member of the Pashtun ethnic group in Afghanistan, Sharbat said she fared relatively well under Taliban rule, which, she feels, provided a measure of stability after the chaos and terror of the Soviet war.

According to Matson and McCurry, Sharbat Gula has returned to anonymity; the latest publicity about her name and face is unlikely to draw attention to her in Afghanistan. "She will not give another media interview and she wishes not to be contacted," Matson said. Her family has relocated to a different village in a remote part of Afghanistan, where she will continue to live her life in purdah, he added.

Asked if Sharbat would benefit financially from her famous image, Matson said she was "being looked after."

"Clearly she has become a symbol that National Geographic has used to illustrate the circumstances of refugees like her, and many people have inquired about her," he said. "She stood for an entire group of refugees, not just Afghan refugees. She has helped us with our mission of educating people about other cultures and regions—and she's helping us again by drawing attention to the lives of Afghan women and girls in general."

Sourced from : National Geographic.com