There will be many MANY 9/11 covers in the coming weeks. I’m certain that this will not be the best one of those. But, I’m a sucker for aerial photography so I’m easily sold on this one...
These are the issues that posturing editors like to make big grand statements with enormous single topic zeitgeist-capturing feature wells - photo essays, first persons, graphics, essays by eminent thinkers, artist commission photography, covers and imagery, crowd sourced content.. the whole shebang. The pressure to perform and make stand-out issues is intense as magazines compete for the imaginary ‘who did the best 9/11 coverage’ awards. I’m already finding it all a bit tiring...
As Dan Frommer writes this morning, it's a breathtaking cover. All the more impressive because it's so easy to get trapped in cliché when visualizing this topic. (This makes me wonder if I should be paying more attention to Bloomberg Businessweek.)