At first glance, it seems a bit anachronistic: to make books in which the title pages of magazines are displayed. The weekly or monthly obsolete bound for the eternal shelves in heavy picture books. Now two of them have appeared: "Title pages, the history wrote", which wants to tell about the cover of "star" to "Bunte" the history of the Federal Republic since 1949, and "Titanic: The final title book" with all covers of the satire magazine her 40 years.
Now you might say: Sure, the print editions slip and slide, these books are monuments. Mementos cast in heavy paper on the past. The "Bild" newspaper tried something similar two years ago, the "New York Times" regularly brings a trumpet called "Complete Front Pages: 1851 - X" out, the taz at least brings their "most legendary title" on its own page. Only: What makes such collections still relevant today? Or: just today?
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Philipp Hontschik
Cover pages that wrote history: Unforgettable journal covers 1949 to today
Publishing company:
Prestel Verlag
Pages:
192
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EUR 32,00
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First of all: small test. So from memory, which covers are one of all the decades? Here, in a loose order: the "we have aborted" title from the "star", the "Hitler Diaries" issue, also from the "star", Willy Brandts kneeling on the cover of SPIEGEL, Barschel in the bathtub 1987 on the One of the "Stern", the innumerable and endlessly annoying title pages, which up to the present illustrate stories about back pain, data security, naturopathy with naked women.
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Magazine Cover: These titles wrote historyMany titles are still present today
Then of course the "Titanic": "Zone Gaby in luck" with banana from November 1989, 2010 the Catholic priest before Jesus with red head on the cross, 2012 the two consecutive editions with Pope Ratzinger in not-quite-quite-white cowl ( "The leak is found!"), 2018: "Nazis can not draw swastikas". And the front pages of "Focus" and "Süddeutsche Zeitung" after the Cologne New Year's Eve 2016. If you stretch the category something, this includes the "Welcome" title on the "time" in summer 2015, which welcomed the refugees, as well as their "Or should we leave it?".
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Magazine cover: 40 years "Titanic"All together reflect societal debates, representing a status quo of a moment. So memorable that many seem present, even if they have appeared long before their own time. A few of them are also in the book that Philipp Hontschik (a pseudonym) put together. Although it announces "unforgotten magazine cover" from the birth of the Federal Republic in the sub-line, but: No, the 70 titles are not really.
Or say: not all. Unfortunately, the themed headlines in short texts do not add any value that goes beyond the status of a "gift book" (if you are looking for depth and sharpness, take the excellent two-volume "Picture Atlas" by Gerhard Paul, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2008/09).
Cover fulfill another task today
After all, it becomes visible what was different: For example, that "Bunte" and the later Gartenzaunporno-Postille "Quick" once understood politically ("Our new neighbor: de Gaulle", "Watergate in Bonn") and that women's magazines such as "Brigitte" or "girlfriend" used to work because they were packing Audrey Hepburn or Sophia Loren on the cover. Instead of normal women today, with whom readers can identify more easily, even if they wear top clothes and are damn well lit.
But the most obvious thing is: the job Cover has to fulfill has changed. As a full-page billboard at the kiosk, they have long-term disused. If you read magazines on your smartphone or iPad, you will not be able to see the front pages in public, as was previously the case.
The fact that covers can be a debating tool was first made visible by the "Stern" title. Also as a result, covers have become the ideal Sharepic today: designed to be shared on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. A traditional print element, now reused in the printless everyday livestream (and for brand sharpening on top of that).
The cover has replaced the editorial. It has become the debut piece of our visual age: arguments, attitudes, congealed into a single image. X times divided, seen y times, z times lied, and the written debate shifts into the DruKos. And then in new comments on the cover picture. As just recently, the SPIEGEL-Aufmacher "So isser, the Ossi".
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Hardy Burmeier
Titanic - The final title book: 40 years just ripped off!
Publishing company:
Kunstmann, A
Pages:
400
Price:
EUR 40,00
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Images that are so inscribed in our short-term memory of memory are community-building - also about the discourse that they depict and carry on. "Conscious distance between itself and the outside world," wrote art historian Aby Warburg in the twenties about the superpower of images, is the "basic act of human civilization".
In this sense: As long as we debate about magazine covers, our society is not bad at all.
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