Resonating Icons of Rolling Stone

“A great star image gracing a magazine cover does more than simply sell a publication. It burnishes an icon“, Jim Farber writes on the New York Daily News today.

“Over the last 40 years, Rolling Stone has buffed up some of the best, using the expressions, styles and physiognomy of the hottest musicians to say something about the qualities, looks and ideas that keep us rapt.”

“During Rolling Stone’s 40 years of life, its best covers have cemented in our minds images that seem by turns vulnerable, defiant, shocking, erotic or just plain camp. Many came from the lens and imagination of Annie Leibovitz, though scores of other photographers, from Herb Ritts to Mark Seliger, have done their part to conspire with the stars to create personae we all buy into.”

“To toast Rolling Stone’s four decades, Farber picked for the New York Daily News some of the covers that resonate most.”

Here’s the Madonna one of his choice – check out the entire article by clicking here.

• Issue #508 Madonna Sept. 10, 1987
Of all the Madonna covers, this Herb Ritts shot nails her at her most engagingly entitled.