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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
With changing times, TIME's covers have changed dramatically.
This week offers an excellent example: illustrating the
vanishing ozone shield required the efforts of two
photographers, a digital imaging expert and an art director who
blended their work into a compelling design. But if many of our
covers these days have become more conceptual to address broad
issues, there was a time when we usually featured individuals,
and assigned noted artists to paint them.
The results were often superb -- or at least the
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington thinks so.
At an exhibition running through May 17, the nation's official
depository of portraits is showing 36 TIME covers of men and
women who played key roles in the Second World War. "TIME Covers
the War: Personalities from World War II" spans the period from
Jan. 3, 1938, when General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek of China
were on the cover, to May 21, 1945, when Japan's Emperor
Hirohito was rendered as the divine "Son of Heaven." Also
included: Joseph Stalin as the 1942 Man of the Year, General
Douglas MacArthur upon his triumphant return to the Philippines
in October 1944 and Adolf Hitler following his suicide in May
1945.
The works represent just a fraction of the 1,600 TIME
covers -- the only magazine covers so honored -- in the
gallery's collection, most of which was assembled in 1978 from
our archives in the Time & Life Building. Frederick Voss, a
gallery historian and curator of the TIME collection, says the
covers "still evoke the images and immediacy of that time. They
are picture editorials of World War II that weren't captured
anywhere else." They also stand out because of their unique
style, which relied on the use of often mythical background
symbols to establish the cover subject's significance. The
technique became the signature of the three studio artists
commissioned by TIME: Boris Artzybasheff, Ernest Hamlin Baker
and Boris Chaliapin, known collectively as "ABC." Of the three,
Chaliapin was the most prolific, producing more than 400 cover
portraits. ABC, says TIME art director Rudolph Hoglund, "were
pioneers of a tradition" of recruiting distinguished
illustrators for the magazine's cover art. Among them: Marc
Chagall, Andrew Wyeth and Andy Warhol. We like to have our
journalism keep that kind of company.
-- Elizabeth P. Valk