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A facinating look at the 20th centrury.

Mark Evanier linked to the Esquire cover gallery from his blog, and browsing through the gallery is a really interesting look back at the last century (or from 1933 on, anyway). Looking through here, you get to see the magazine's formal look in the 30s, the brief switch to pure illustrations in the late 40s, a comedic turn in the 50s, totally far-out look in the late 60s, a political twist in the 70s, and then the sudden change in the 80s, where rich white men were on practically every cover. Looking through these really makes me wish magazines would stop with the silly celebrity worship and get back to putting a little more thought into their covers.

Posted by jason at September 5, 2003 12:23 PM | TrackBack | Read more: Art