On Monday the American Association of Magazine Editors unveiled their top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years, with John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s cover shot by Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone topping the list. The image was taken on the day before Lennon was shot dead outside his apartment. Leibovitz features heavily in the list with the number two shot as well (of Demi Moore) as do the themes of September 11th 2001 in Time, Fortune and New Yorker covers, and celebrity portraits of people like Princess Diana, Andy Warhol, The Dixie Chicks and Bill Clinton.
ASME created the “Magazine 40/40” competition earlier this year. A judging panel of 52 magazine editors, design directors, art directors and photography editors was charged with picking the 40 top covers from a pool of 444 images representing 136 magazines. The contest was open to all consumer magazines published in the United States. Magazines were invited to submit up to four entries from their respective publications. Entrants were also encouraged to nominate covers of magazines that were not published by their company or were no longer being published.
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