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- <title>
- June 28, 1993: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 28, 1993 Fatherhood
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <body>
- <p> Fathers should be neither seen nor heard," wrote Oscar Wilde.
- "This is the only proper basis for family life." It's hard to
- say what Wilde would have thought of this week's cover photo
- or the pictures inside of dads and their children. Several clearly
- defy the outdated idea of fathers as detached from the parenting
- process. And that's just what the photographers intended.
- </p>
- <p> Gregory Heisler, who did the cover photograph, says he wanted
- the image to show genuine affection. So, rather than use professional
- models, he went out and found some "real dads and their real
- kids." Adds Heisler: "Instead of doing some slick, over-produced
- shot, I wanted something more authentic to the experience of
- being a father." This isn't the first time that Heisler, 39,
- has conveyed complex ideas for the cover of TIME. His photographs
- have graced the front of the magazine some 20 times, ranging
- from Olympic athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and director David
- Lynch to former President George Bush and Ted Turner for the
- Man of the Year issues in 1991 and 1992, respectively. But this
- week's TIME cover has special meaning, he says, because he and
- his wife Prudence had their first child, Lucy, 16 months ago.
- </p>
- <p> The pictures appearing inside were all done by photographer
- Jeffrey Lowe. Although Lowe has not experienced fatherhood yet,
- he observed many intimate moments of parenting by spending a
- lot of private time with each dad and child. Of all the pictures,
- Lowe was most deeply touched by the father-to-be embracing his
- pregnant wife.
- </p>
- <p> While most of the credit for the pictures rightly goes to those
- behind the camera, cover coordinator Linda Freeman and assistant
- picture editor Mary Worrell Bousquette, who work behind the
- scenes, also deserve accolades. Freeman, for instance, had the
- challenging task of making arrangements for the group portrait
- of child movie stars by Heisler that appears on page 62. Says
- she: "My greatest reward is working with these talented artists."
- Bousquette edited the pictures that appear inside. "I wanted
- our story to show the many faces of fatherhood," she says. At
- least in this issue, those fathers are seen as well as heard.
- Sorry, Oscar.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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