WE don't think of the cover as a mere visual aid to journalism," says Louis R. Glessmann, our art director. "A TIME cover is journalism.
It is meant to convey a mood, an interpretation, no less than the story it accompanies." To illustrate his point, we have assembled a gallery of TIME originals for an exhibit opening next week at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute. The 124 pieces of portraiture, caricature, sculpture and graphic design form a kind of life-size scrapbook of the personalities and issues of recent history.
The covers also represent nearly...
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