A carefully selected presentation of more than 500 of the world's great magazine covers, this book is the first international survey of an expressive medium that has contributed an important esthetic legacy to our culture.

Uncovered is an oral history of the stories behind the most ground-breaking and controversial magazine covers ever published, as told by the people who created them. Compiled by industry veteran Ian Birch, Uncovered gathers together the insights of the magazine world's most important figures, including high-profile editors, creative directors, photographers, artists and cover stars. Featuring compelling and shocking covers from Vogue, Life, Esquire, The New Yorker, i-D, The Face, Private Eye, Time, Rolling Stone and many more, covering issues as varied as the civil rights movement and Vietnam war to the Trump presidency and Brexit debate, this is a unique social document celebrating and chronicling the art of magazine design.

Showcasing a vast range of titles, from fashion to reportage, and high-end design to counter-cultural fanzines, this collection offers an insight not only into the work of the most influential art directors, publishers and designers of the last century, but into the way that we perceive and represent ourselves and the culture in which we live; our interests, concerns, and aspirations.

From America's Finest News Source comes a compilation of the most important, most influential, and glossiest magazine covers ever produced by the hand of humankind. Seen by tens of billions worldwide, these are the unforgettable Onion Magazine covers that altered the course of human history and radically redefined your trivial life anew every weekend. Profound philosophical questions, the thoughts of leading cultural luminaries, harsh truths of existence, remorseless personal attacks -- you will encounter full-color graphical representations of all of these within this handsome volume. Whether you are a connoisseur of pretty pictures or are new to looking at images, The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers that Transformed an Undeserving World is sure to give you, the feebleminded consumer, far more pleasure than you have any earthly right to experience.

Showcases over six hundred of the iconic magazine's covers from 1960 to the present, in a collection that includes insights from editors and photographers that reveal how the images are shot and selected.

A fascinating look at the history of Time, the world's most influential newsweekly.

This Coffee Table Book is filled with 30 Pin Up Magazine covers from the early 1950's from magazines such as Film Fun, Snappy Stories, Silk Stocking Stories, Flirt, Judge, Wink, Titter, Breezy, Yank, Gay Book and Gay Parisienne Magazines. Check out the companion coloring book to fashion and design your own version of these amazing models. The full color pages are 8.5" x 11," one sided and have a nice black border to allow framing. All four cover images are in this edition. This book is suitable for intermediate colorists. In the late 19th century, pin-up girls became the norm in advertising. These burlesque girls and women became sex symbols and quickly appeared in modern men's magazines all over the world. They entertained soldiers in World War 1 and 2. The magazines found their way under beds and stashed in closets and cubby holes of countless men and women. The feminism movement claimed they destroyed women's morality. The Gibson Girls, Vargas Girls, Petty Girls and countless others were seen by men as being an inspiration. Well known artists such as Earle K. Bergey, Enoch Bolles, Gil Elvgren, George Petty, Rolf Armstrong, Duane Bryers, Peter Driben, Olivia De Beradinis and Art Frahm to mention a few were made famous with their art and talent. Today, these images and magazine covers are just as inspiring. While our world has grown in so many ways sexually, these girls are forever ageless, classy, beautiful, clean, healthy and wholesome.

They made you look. They made you think. They made you care. Now, in Uncovered, the editors, photographers, designers and muses behind 100 of the most iconic magazine covers reveal the discussions and decisions that led them to publish and be damned. The media both reflects and shapes society, and today more than ever we are aware of the potential for the cover of a magazine to create ripples across the world; particularly with the advent of social media. In this book, the former editorial director of Hearst magazines in the UK, Ian Birch, takes a chronological look at the most impactful covers, and speaks to the people behind them to get the inside take on how they came to fruition. Featuring interviews with photographers, their subjects, art directors, editors and designers involved in creating these ground-breaking covers, including exclusive interviews with Tina Brown, Jann Wenner, Ian Hislop, and Caitlyn Jenner on her now iconic Vanity Fair cover, Uncovered is an exciting look at how creative minds come together to create revolutionary covers.