Rolling stones Controversal front covers/ artistic front covers.

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• John Lennon is naked and Yoko Ono Isn't, this is quite a surreal shot because its quite an intimate shot yet its being displayed on a front cover of a magazine.
• Also the picture was taken 4 hours before He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived.

http://beastpop.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-belong-alive-bride-of-frank-for.html

• Magazine seen to be quite raunchy
• Also the camera shot is quite artistically symetrical

http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/music/photos/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=25320632&page=18

• This shot of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is quite controversial, mainly because they are all naked.
• They have quite serious facial expressions so theshot seems quite surreal and they are all standing in height order so the shot has quite a lot of artisic order.

http://news.lalate.com/2008/01/11/britney-spears-rolling-stone-cover-pictures/

• In this picture Britney is dressed up as a school girl and the shot is taken from above her which makes it look like someones spying on her when she is in her room.

• In this shot Kanye west is depicted as Jesus, this shot is considered to be very controversial and some Christians might find it offensive because it challenges the image of Jesus and false idols.
• Crown of thorns and the reference to the passion of Christ defiantly confirms the reference to Jesus.

http://pattifriday.com/2010/08/true-blood-rolling-stone-magazine-cover/

• The picture on the front cover here depicts the three actors in True Blood naked and covered in blood, the blood is a reference to the title of the TV series and also that the series is about vampires.
• Them all being naked is to start with quite controversial but them also standing in quite raunchy positions makes the cover even more controversial.

Artistic covers

• This Is a front cover that features Steve Jobs.
• its very artistic because of the use of colours, they red and yellow on Steve Jobs clash really badly with the background colours, but this is what makes the cover work, the colours clash so much that it looks good.
• the caption 'iGod' is quite controversial as It refers to all the Apple mac products that have i in front like the 'ipod', but referring to Steve jobs as a god seems quite controversial though it almost seems right with the idea's that he has come up with to fuel Apple.

• This magazine is quite controversial and artistic at the same time.
• The article says 'The Game , suicide is not an option' and then having a huge picture of a man with a gun to his head, addressing the problem straight away with the picture, its very eye catching because you don't normally see something this this on the front of a magazine so you would pick it up out of curiosity.

• this magazine is very artistic, because it talks about this issue being the 'Denim Me' version and instead of just having someone wearing a pair of jeans on the front cover they have got a pair of jeans that look like someones wearing them and then surrounding and flowing around the jeans they have a very artistic doodle that makes the magazine really interesting to look at.
• The white background also allows the black doodles to really stand out and give the magazine a very simple look that's really ascetically pleasing.