Thursday, January 27, 2011

top 40 magazine cover

#1, John & Yoko, Rolling Stone,   Formal
#2, Demi Moore, Vanity Fair,   Formal
#3, Muhammad Ali, Esquire, Formal
#9, Harpers Bazaar,   Formal
#10, National Geographic,    Informal
#15, Harpers Bazaar,    Formal
#19, Bill Clinton, Esquire,   Formal
#22, Cindy Crawford, George Magazine,   Formal
#24, Interview Magazine,   Informal
#26, Mia Farrow, People,    Formal
#27, Dixie Chicks, Entertainment Weekly,   Formal
#29, Playboy,    Environmental
#31, Bush/Gore, Newsweek,   Environmental
#32, Nicole Kidman, Vogue Magazine,   Formal
#35, New York Magazine,     Informal
#36, Princess Diana, People Magazine,     Formal
#37, Details Magazine,     Formal
#37, Glamour Magazine,    Formal
#37, Ellen DeGeneres, TIME,    Formal

Favorite: #3, Muhammad Ali, Esquire
(April 1968)
The controversial April 1968 magazine cover depicting Muhammad Ali impaled by six arrows appeared on the heels of his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army because of his religious beliefs. (Ali, convicted violating the Selective Service Act, was barred from the ring and stripped of his title.) The cover, the second of three Esquire covers defending Ali, shows the boxer martyred as St. Sebastian, a patron saint of athletes and one who was shot with arrows for his steadfast religious beliefs. This was one of the covers designed by George Lois, Esquires Art Director during the 1960s.

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