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”Steve Jobs’s death caused Time magazine to stop the presses—quite literally—for the first time in 20 years. Editor Richard Stengel tossed out the previous edition and the staff spent three hours making a new issue, going with a cover photo shot by Norman Seeff in 1984. Seeff took the picture in ...

”Steve Jobs’s death caused Time magazine to stop the presses—quite literally—for the first time in 20 years. Editor Richard Stengel tossed out the previous edition and the staff spent three hours making a new issue, going with a cover photo shot by Norman Seeff in 1984. Seeff took the picture in ...

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Cover Story, Part 1 ”Steve Jobs’s death caused Time magazine to stop the presses—quite literally—for the first time in 20 years. Editor Richard Stengel tossed out the previous edition and the staff spent three hours making a new issue, going with a cover photo shot by Norman Seeff in 1984. Seeff took the picture in ... Cover Story, Part 2 ”Jobs became an emblem of a new age and a new chapter in human history, the face of the machines that changed how we live. As such, he was a worthy subject for many of the most renowned photographers of the day. For it’s special commemorative issue on Jobs, Newsweek went with a cover photo by Hir... Cover Story, Part 3 ”Jobs’s face came to symbolize a new kind of fame—the triumph of the tech geek in modern pop culture. People magazine went with a 2005 cover shot by photographer Art Streiber. The magazine’s cover lines promise readers a glimpse into Jobs’s ’private world’.” Photo by Art Streiber, People Cover Story, Part 4 Billboard magazine summed up what Jobs meant to the music industry: ’He rolled out the first handheld digital media player to go mainstream. He negotiated licensing deals with major-label executives to launch the first successful—and now market-leading— digital music store. And when things got co... Cover Story, Part 5 ”The computer company that Jobs started in a garage would one day have more cash reserves than the United States government. Bloomberg Businessweek underscored Jobs’s aura as a business guru with a cover image whose impact derives from its spare beauty. Jobs the design genius would probably under... The World: Pakistan ”In a hospital in Quetta, two men mourn the death of a relative who was killed when Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwest Pakistan.” Photo by Arshad Butt/AP, Denver Post The World: Egypt ”On October 9 thousands of Coptic Christians marched in Cairo to protest an attack on a church in southern Egypt. The protests turned violent when the Christians clashed with Egyptian security forces, leaving more than 20 dead.” Photos by Mohammed Hossam/AFP/Getty Images, Time The World: Libya ”Photographer Aris Messinis recorded this scene as Libya’s ’transitional forces’ fought it out with loyalists of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in the streets of Surt, Qaddafi’s tribal stronghold. The Qaddafi loyalists have proved surprisingly stubborn, according to one NATO spokesman, but the morale of... The World: North Korea ”Perhaps photographer Damir Sagoli was thinking about the socialist realism of vintage communist propaganda posters when he photographed this young boy working on a collective farm in South Hwanghae Province. The North Korean government set up the tour of the area, which normally produces a third... The World: U.S.A. ”Nothing says American populism like a silly costume. A couple of years ago, the Tea Party burst onto the national scene with rallies in which protesters donned 18th-century colonial garb to evoke their unbending belief in the wisdom of the country’s founding fathers. (Ironically, the spiritual g... Faces, Part 1 ”According to the November issue of Vanity Fair, Johnny Depp is Hollywood’s best-paid actor. (His booty from all those pirate movies? Around $300 million.) ’Basically, if they’re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I’m going to take it’, Depp tells the magazine. Notice, however, that no o... Faces, Part 2 ”Bullett magazine says the inspiration for this photo story, starring Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, was the seminal Joseph Campbell book Hero with a Thousand Faces. McGregor and photographer Mari Sarai engage in their own study of comparative mythology.” Photos by Mari Sarai, Bullett The Physical World, Part 1 ”We understand that the bodies of athletes are marvelous things whenever we witness remarkable feats of power, speed, and agility. In its annual ’Body Issue’, ESPN The Magazine presents athletic bodies as objects of marvelous beauty in and of themselves. Seen here: professional basketball player ... The Physical World, Part 2 ”The essence of photography’s power is its ability to reveal hidden marvels that lie in plain sight. A case in point is this photo of sand, photographed at 4x magnification by Yanping Wang of the Beijing Planetarium in Beijing, China. The image was one of the winners of this year’s Nikon Small Wo...