Cover History

Early Magazine Covers-
During the 1700's The basic cover provided a title and publication information. There weren't any descriptive words informing you about what you might read inside the magazine. The cover usually had a detailed yet generic illustration that didn't really reveal any specific contents of the magazine. Cover lines were rare, some didn't even have covers. Cover lines consisted of one or two lines at the top. Some just began with an article in a newspaper type style. During the 1800's Cover lines started appearing on the covers, using the same generic illustrations, which were mostly victorian embellishments, with another illustration symbolizing something in the magazine. During the end of the 1800's illustators started to experiment and became more creative when drawing.

The Poster Cover-
Started up during the 1890's and went on until the 1960's. By the early 1900's many of the pictures were so detailed and sophisticated. Many didn't have any cover lines, or themes, the image usually went without being covered by the logo. Some poster covers didn't even relate to the story inside the magazine. It usually portrayed a specific mood. Eventually during the 1920's-1960's, the cover lines became part of the cover design.

Pictures Married to Type-
By the late 1800's cover lines were pretty common, in the early 1900's it soon transformed into a type of dialogue. The covers started becoming intergrated, in which the illustration and writing achieved a "relationship", complimenting each part. Most magazines of the 1940's-50's used modest cover lines that didn't ruin the picture.. Many magazines started experiemnting with unusual cover lines. Later on in the 1960's the cover typography became more adventurous by making large and bright writing, intergrating with the picture, sometimes overlapping the main subject, but still organized in a way to look appealing.

In the Forest of Words-
In the turn of the 21st century, cover lines were just as important as the cover art on the magazine. Some covers of this period have cover lines that are surprisingly larger than the actual name of the magazine.

Photojournalism Ethics

I personally think photojournalism ethics should be situational. Although there may be right and wrong...there is always something in between that could be labeled as both right and wrong. Anything that has to do with an important event, possibly historical, relgion, politics, death,..etc anything that is an important situation shouldn't be manipulated. I believe that some photos capture the truth... But there are photos that were thoughtfully planned and only show part of the truth which includes that what was in the picture was set up to look like that in a single moment. The photo itself is true... But what happened in the photo might not necessarily be true.
The only decisions I have made that have "editted" reality is when I changed the picture sharpness, giving it a better photographic quality. It is important that news editors have made the ethical standards clear because if there weren't rules to follow, then photographers would distort different pictures of important situations to make an illusion that could cause chaos to viewers looking at it. It's kind of like writing a false story about a death, or something beneficial to one's knowledge. It's ethically and morally wrong.

Fashion Ethics

The changes that were made in the Dove Video included reshaping the girl's facial structure, making her neck longer, narrowing her face up, tightening her skin, upscaling the size of her eyes, giving her a supposedly "flawless" look in order to make the photo more appealing and to sell this product.

Ethically, I honestly don't agree with maniupulating a photo for the purpose of selling a product...I think it is very unethical because it's just adding onto the false advertisement that continually distorts the true vision of many products for the viewers/consumers. I think the only real time manipulating a photo is ethical is if it is for art related purposes...To create a certain concept, to let people view things differently. But if a photo is meant to prove something that is true, to show people what truly happened; then I think that the photo should be as natural as possible instead of appealing to the eye..Because it is obviously not trying to prove a point, but trying to show people in the world what is actually happening in the world today. Now although Fashion Photography is more of an art, I don't think it is okay to portray people as unnaturally beautiful to 'distort the idea of beauty' among young and older people of the world. It's not logical..
In photojournalism it differs because photos that are to be shown in newspapers [which are meant to inform people] are not necessarily in the artistic category; because of this, photojournalism's ethical limits are far more serious than the drastic changes many advertisements in the Fashion Industry make. Their relation in reality is...Fashion is more of an artificial need, it isn't beneficial to living..... It isn't beneficial to life such as the news which can alert you in dangerous/important situations which could save your life.

Funny Captions

Dr.Evol's latest poodle-cloning invention got out of control when he left to go to the labratory. They were still multiplying like breeding bunnies when he returned.

Fluffy Furby,the newest toy for youngsters these days.

Pandy the 3 year old asian baby was brutally attacked by starving pigeons. She dropped her animal crackers.

Sugar Hill

A. Melanie Burford had to make personal connections with the people she photographed in order to be able to catch so much emotion into her pictures.
B. The music helped you feel the emotion of the pictures..

Repetition

The giant cluster of bikes shows repetition in the shapes of the wheels of the bike, the bike's parts, and the people holding the bikes up.

Cyclists hold up their bicycles during a 'Critical Mass' demonstration on the European Car Free Day in Budapest, Hungary.

The repetition is how the gymnasts are all in the same positon, facing the same way.

Children practice splits at the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in Xiantao, China. More than 60 children aged between 3 and 10 from all over China train at the boarding school.

The blankets

Performers rehearse for the opening ceremony of the 6th National City Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province. The sporting meet will begin on Oct. 25 in Wuhan.

Reason why you won't be able to find my file..

I tried putting my file into the My Documents, but it says access denied :(
And I've tried to do this numerous times....
Right now you're busy, so I decided this was the best way to tell you.

If you need to look at the file, its on the desktop of Computer 14.