”Steve Jobs’s death caused Time magazine to stop the presses—quite literally—for the first time in 20 years. Editor Richard Stengel tossed out the previous edition and the staff spent three hours making a new issue, going with a cover photo shot by Norman Seeff in 1984. Seeff took the picture in the living room of Jobs’s home in Woodside, California. ’We were just sitting, talking about creativity and everyday stuff in his living room’, says the photographer. ’I was beginning to build a level of intimacy with him, and then he rushed off, and came back in and plopped down in that pose. He spontaneously sat down with a Macintosh in his lap. I got the shot the first time’.” Photo by Norman Seeff, Time
Billboard magazine summed up what Jobs meant to the music industry: 'He rolled out the first handheld digital media player to go mainstream. He negotiated licensing deals with major-label executives to launch the first successfulu2014and now market-leadingu2014 digital music store. And when things got contentious with his label partners, he reframed the debate by going straight to the music-buying public with a well-timed interview or blog post, accusing labels of u2018getting a little greedy' in 2005 when they wanted to raise prices at iTunes, or calling on them in 2007 to drop digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on downloads'.u201d Photo by Kimberly White/Corbis, Billboardrn
u201dThe computer company that Jobs started in a garage would one day have more cash reserves than the United States government. Bloomberg Businessweek underscored Jobs's aura as a business guru with a cover image whose impact derives from its spare beauty. Jobs the design genius would probably understand.u201d Photo from Getty Images, Bloomberg Businessweek
u201dJobs became an emblem of a new age and a new chapter in human history, the face of the machines that changed how we live. As such, he was a worthy subject for many of the most renowned photographers of the day. For it's special commemorative issue on Jobs, Newsweek went with a cover photo by Hiro, also taken in 1984.u201d Photo by Hiro, Newsweek
u201dAccording to the November issue of Vanity Fair, Johnny Depp is Hollywood's best-paid actor. (His booty from all those pirate movies? Around $300 million.) 'Basically, if they're going to pay me the stupid money right now, I'm going to take it', Depp tells the magazine. Notice, however, that no one is dressing like a zombie to protest the actor's wealth. Why? It might be his abundant charm, captured here by Terry Richardson. The art of high living is to make it look inoffensive.u201d Photos by Terry Richardson, Vanity Fair
u201dJobs's face came to symbolize a new kind of fameu2014the triumph of the tech geek in modern pop culture. People magazine went with a 2005 cover shot by photographer Art Streiber. The magazine's cover lines promise readers a glimpse into Jobs's 'private world'.u201d Photo by Art Streiber, People
u201dIn a hospital in Quetta, two men mourn the death of a relative who was killed when Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwest Pakistan.u201d Photo by Arshad Butt/AP, Denver Post
u201dThe essence of photography's power is its ability to reveal hidden marvels that lie in plain sight. A case in point is this photo of sand, photographed at 4x magnification by Yanping Wang of the Beijing Planetarium in Beijing, China. The image was one of the winners of this year's Nikon Small World Competition, which drew more than 2,000 entries from 70 countries.u201d Photo by Yanping Wang, u201cBig Picture,u201d Boston Globe
u201dNothing says American populism like a silly costume. A couple of years ago, the Tea Party burst onto the national scene with rallies in which protesters donned 18th-century colonial garb to evoke their unbending belief in the wisdom of the country's founding fathers. (Ironically, the spiritual godmother of the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, preferred leather skirts and motorcycle jackets.) While the Tea Party railed against the tyranny of Washington, D.C., the new 'Occupy Wall Street' movement takes aim at corporate greedu2014and what better way to do that than dressing up like the walking dead? Photographer Emmanuel Dunand found this group of 'corporate zombies' wandering near Wall Street.u201d Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP, u201cFramework,u201d Los Angeles Times
u201dOn October 9 thousands of Coptic Christians marched in Cairo to protest an attack on a church in southern Egypt. The protests turned violent when the Christians clashed with Egyptian security forces, leaving more than 20 dead.u201d Photos by Mohammed Hossam/AFP/Getty Images, Time
u201dBullett magazine says the inspiration for this photo story, starring Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, was the seminal Joseph Campbell book Hero with a Thousand Faces. McGregor and photographer Mari Sarai engage in their own study of comparative mythology.u201d Photos by Mari Sarai, Bullett
u201dPerhaps photographer Damir Sagoli was thinking about the socialist realism of vintage communist propaganda posters when he photographed this young boy working on a collective farm in South Hwanghae Province. The North Korean government set up the tour of the area, which normally produces a third of the country's cereal supply. This year summer floods and typhoons caused severe damage there, causing North Korea to appeal for food. The proletariat apparently plows forward heroically, nonetheless.u201d Photo by Damir Sagoli/Reuters, u201cFramework,u201d Los Angeles Times
u201dWe understand that the bodies of athletes are marvelous things whenever we witness remarkable feats of power, speed, and agility. In its annual 'Body Issue', ESPN The Magazine presents athletic bodies as objects of marvelous beauty in and of themselves. Seen here: professional basketball player Sylvia Fowles.u201d Photo by Jeff Riedel, ESPN The Magazine
u201dPhotographer Aris Messinis recorded this scene as Libya's 'transitional forces' fought it out with loyalists of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in the streets of Surt, Qaddafi's tribal stronghold. The Qaddafi loyalists have proved surprisingly stubborn, according to one NATO spokesman, but the morale of the one-time rebels seems equally unflappable.u201d Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images, u201cLens,u201d New York Times
u201dThe United States joined other countries that in recent months have seen large street demonstrations provoked by an ongoing financial crisis. Protestors have converged on New York City's financial district over the past several weeks. The focus of the demonstrator's ire includes the influence of corporate money in politics. For the most part, the u201cOccupy Wall Streetu201d protests have been peaceful, but over the weekend some 700 people were arrested when they marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Is the stage set for a populist uprising? Isn't that what the Tea Party is supposed to be all about?u201d Photo by Frank Franklin II/AP, u201cIn Focus,u201d The Atlantic
u201dMeanwhile, back to the financial crisis: Gyrating stock markets didn't stop European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and German Chancellor Angela Merkel from enjoying a jovial moment on September 28. Do images like this make us any more confident in our leaders? More inspiring was the $590 billion approved by the German parliament to help bail out its indebted European neighbors.u201d Photo by Michaela Rehle/Reuters-Landov, Newsweek
u201dAfter being held in Iran's Evin Prison for more than two years, two Americans, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, were released last week and flown to Oman. There, photographer Jumana El-Heloueh caught the moment when Bauer (center) was greeted by family members and his fiancée, Sarah Shroud (right). Bauer, Fattal, and Shroud had been hiking in northern Iran when they were captured and charged with espionage. Shroud was released in 2010.u201d Photo by Jumana El-Heloueh/Reuters, Newsweek
u201dHere, U.S. soldier Private Freymond Tyler of D-Company, 2-87 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team finds moments of peace on his cot at an outpost in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, his laptop booted up and his gun nearby. The next day, August 14, it was back to war: D-Company launched an assault against in nearby Malwand district. According the Army, eight Afghans were captured, including two suspected Taliban leaders.u201d Photo by Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images, u201cIn Focusu201d, The Atlantic rn
u201dCarter Smith captured the many faces of dream-girl Gwyneth Paltrow, and American Elle ran them all. The appeal of old-fashioned contact sheets continues in our digital age.u201d Photos by Carter Smith, Elle, September 2011
u201dSamuel L. Jackson has achieved a rare level of coolu2014the kind of cool associated with actors like De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, as writer David Keeps points out in a New York magazine profile. Photographer Marc Baptiste rightly kept his accompanying portrait simpleu2014steel-gray suit, white shirt, gray tie, and piercing gaze. You look at the picture, and you can hear Jackson uttering his signature expletive: motherx*&%#*. How cool is Jackson? He's set to portray Dr. Martin Luther King on Broadway, and, as Keeps notes, he will be the voice behind the audio-book version of the best-selling childrens' book Go the Fuck to Sleep. Which is mother*$%#*ing great.u201d Photo by Marc Baptiste, New York
Le décès de Steve Jobs le 5 octobre dernier a mobilisé toute l’actualité de la semaine. Magazines d’actualité, de finance, de musique, people. Tous ont réservé leur couverture au cofondateur d’Apple. Ailleurs dans le monde, les conflits se poursuivent. Qu’ils soient religieux au Pakistan et en Egypte ou politiques en Lybie, en Corée du Nord et à Wall Street. Pendant ce temps, Johnny Deep mène la grande vie et les athlètes nous dévoilent leurs corps…Un grain de beauté dans un monde de brute.
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