# Most Famous Magazine Covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097 "2007-05-22T16:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/21 "2007-05-23T13:42:40Z")
[My favorite Sports Illustrated cover](http://www.uga.edu/gm/archives/ArcUga.html). Being up here in Knoxville, TN, having this cover as a desktop image is sure to guarantee a few growls. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/22 "2007-05-23T13:43:59Z")
[QUOTE=donā€™t ask] I assume it has something to do with 9/11ā€¦ but what exactly? [/QUOTE] IIRC, most major sports in America shut down for the week. NFL, MLB, college sports, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/23 "2007-05-23T15:03:51Z")
The best [9/12/01 newspaper frontpage.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/Jo_Killian/BASTARDS.jpg) Iā€™d so like to have a copy of that framed and on my wall. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/24 "2007-05-23T16:04:11Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] [QUOTE=gigi] I thought the guy kissing the girl in Times Square was a LIFE cover but I guess not! [/QUOTE] [You were right.](http://www.life.com/Life/special/kiss03.html) [/QUOTE] Is it weird that Iā€™m terribly happy they donā€™t know who the soldier or the nurse are? It makes it so much more iconographic that way - thatā€™s not Joe Smith and Anne Jones of 123 Somewhere Lane - thatā€™s all of America in a snapshot! As for the OP, Iā€™ll cast a vote for the Linnart Nilsson photo of a fetus on the cover of Life magazine back in 1965. I wasnā€™t born until 1974, but my mother had that issue, as well as Nilssonā€™s book, and I would look at those photos over and over again. Truly groundbreaking work, and a very fitting photo for a magazine called ā€œLifeā€. ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/25 "2007-05-23T16:23:21Z")
[The New Yorker](http://www.oldmagazines.com/images/press%20page%20image/02-21-1925.jpg) [Tom Wolfe on Time](http://www.achievement.org/achievers/wol0/large/wol0-007.jpg) [Mad #30 - first with Neuman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mad30.JPG) [Nintendo Power #1](http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendopower001.jpg) [Saturday Evening Post](http://www.curtispublishing.com/images/Rockwell/9600213.jpg) [Time - dead Hitler](http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1945/1101450507_400.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/26 "2007-05-23T22:46:30Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] _New Yorker_: Saul Steinbergā€™s ā€œView of New York from Fifth Avenue.ā€ [/QUOTE] Do you mean [View of the World from Ninth Avenue](http://www.saulsteinbergfoundation.org/gallery_24_viewofworld.html)? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/27 "2007-05-24T00:42:00Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/28 "2007-05-24T12:36:57Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] The best [9/12/01 newspaper frontpage.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/Jo_Killian/BASTARDS.jpg) Iā€™d so like to have a copy of that framed and on my wall. [/QUOTE] There is a book called ā€œSeptember 11, 2001ā€ which is just the front pages of newspapers covering 9/11. It includes that one. [This](http://www.songster.net/projects/matuschka/matuschka_beauty.html) Sunday Times Magazine cover of breast cancer survivor photograph Matuschka raised some eyebrows (and some people complained about the ā€œpornā€). ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097/29 "2007-05-24T13:42:10Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Iā€™m not sure if photos I remember were photos or magazine covers. I most remember a naked little girl running from a napalm attack, and a Kent State college student crying next to a body on the ground. Covers? [/QUOTE] Not covers AFAIK, but both of those photos won Pulitzer Prizes and were very widely published. The [Kent State photo](http://www.answers.com/topic/john-filo) was taken by John Paul Filo (who I met years ago, he was a student at Kent when he took the photo and was, I believe, the youngest person to win the Pulitzer at the time) and was awarded the Prize in 1971. The [napalm photo](http://www.answers.com/topic/trang-bang) was taken in Trang Bang and received the Prize in 1973. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-magazine-covers/405097.md?page=1)