THE POWER OF A TIME COVER.

PHOTOJOURNALISM; PORTRAIT photography; BLACK & white photography; WOOD sculpture; OPTICAL illusions

Since the charcoal portrait and hand-drawn line work of the first cover - dated March 3, 1923 - nearly every medium out there has been used to create a TIME cover. A CENTURY OF IMPACT THE VIEW INSIDE LEV PARNAS ON WHAT TRUMP WANTED IN UKRAINE WHAT'S AT STAKE IN NIGERIA'S ELECTION WHEN HECKLING HELPS A PRESIDENT That frame came into being another half-century before my childhood artistic endeavors, when, in TIME co-founder Briton Hadden's New York City office, a friend of his named Philip Kobbe took out a red crayon and drew a thick line around the cover of a 1926 copy of the magazine. The 1970s, '80s, and '90s brought with them silk-screen printing, marble, slate, photo collage, political cartoons, news photography, and color portraiture. [Extracted from the article]

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