Photographic portraits are often found on the front cover of magazines............check out this website and comment on the blogg on the covers included, then have a go at creating your own cover in your book which may be seen as controversial at this time/in this culture. (Be respectful in your choice of words and imagery.) Remember to explain what and why.
http://www.magazine.org/asme/top_40_covers/
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For some reason I don't really find the covers outstanding. They are ok, but nothing special. I think that not many really managed to bring the message across. There are some exceptions of course. The way that Roy Lichtenstein pointed the gun at the reader was clever and it really showed what he was thinking. This artwork was made to shock the reader and I think that this could really happen with this gun. The other coverpage that somehow left a mark was the girl with these huge, sad eyes. These eyes followed me quite a bit of time after I saw the picture. The eyes are looking directly at the reader. These eyes make the reader stop to think about the girl they belong to and think about her situation at this moment. The eyes draw the reader and make him or her think about the suffering of the people that are affected by the various conflict most people only know from the television and don't really think about.
I agree with Anne. There is nothing extraordinary about a lot of the covers that makes them be on the 40 greatest covers in the last 40 years. Maybe the subjects of the covers were highly controversial, but on the art/creative side, they are ordinary. However, I really liked three of the covers. The first one is the twin towers blowing up in Time magazine. The angle is amazing and the moment the picture was captured in is perfect. The second cover I liked was the Bill Clinton cover. The angle is quite different, and it is as if you are looking up at Clinton, or as if he is looking down at you, and I find that that creates the sense of power that he has as president. The last cover I liked was the Life magazine cover on the blunt reality of war in Vietnam. I really liked the image and thought it was very real and expressive. It shows how people were trapped from seeing the outside world and at the same time not being able to talk or express their feelings. Basically, I liked how the image was done and how it showed the total dictatorship the people during the Vietnam war suffered from. I think the rest of the covers were controversial and special for the time period they are in, and that is what made them one of the 40 greatest magazine covers.
Some of these magazines cover aren't that attractive, I don't understand or see the point of the image like image #12. There is nothing but the bold words and no pictures, I didn't understand it much on how it should be linked with portrait pictures. However, other portriat pictures such as image #18, it shows and sends the image through the portrait picture which is the basketball player shooting some hoops in an ESPN (sports magazine) front cover. The images where are just simply painted seems like it's a real picture, where it just took a snapshot, just like the old days. As mentioned by Ms. Rimmer, these front covers may be different from today's front covers due to the change in time, but these days we tend to use only pictures which is another way to show portraits, however simple portraits. No meanings beyond it.
Some portraits I realized just emphasizes the meaning of the words or meaning of the magazine.
Some portraits use different tools to produce it, however MOST of them are jut simple photographs. Nothing special about them really, but it's just another technique of presenting portraits.
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