TIME's tablet-only Boston Marathon cover shows a bloodied and terrified child in the arms on a police officer. The controversy sparked is not unfamiliar to modern TIME covers? that have used children in provocative ways.
TIME's cover on breast feeding compared with Louis Glanzman's illustration for a cover story about Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968 ? both provocative subjects, only one, the newer one, has a controversial cover. Did TIME's recent tablet-only cover of a bloodied boy go too far? He thinks so.
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EnlargeIn the '60s Louis Glanzman, now 91, known for his illustrations in the Pippi Longstocking books, painted more than 80 covers for TIME magazine. But, now, he and his wife Fran have given up on the publication because of its cover choices which they consider ?sad and unfortunate.? While Glanzman?s covers are in the Smithsonian?s National Portrait Gallery, current covers are causing an outcry from readers for placing children in provocative, horrific or sensational settings.
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?Lou always looks at those new covers for TIME and says, ?It?s a new world and I?m not part of it,?? said his wife Fran in a phone interview from their home in Medford, N.J. She explained that?Mr. Glanzman?is very ill and in bed, ?The family is very worried about him right now.? Their family includes four adult daughters and 10 grandchildren.
This week TIME's choice of photo has sparked controversy with the cover shot of a terrified little boy, one side of his head drenched in blood, as he is whisked from the bombing by a first responder. The headline reads ?Tragedy in Boston.? As The Huffington Post aptly pointed out, ??people recoil at the sight of children in peril, and some will inevitably wonder why the magazine chose the picture it did.?
My objection is that I think this cover choice works against our national spiritual and emotional recovery by sowing the seeds of fear. Therefore, this cover choice gives the terrorists exactly what they wanted by visually and spiritually impacting us right down to our children.
Mrs. Glanzman spoke about her recent conversations with her spouse on the topic of how news presentation has changed to become more sensational and gory. ?At least with Lou?s covers you could always show them to the kids,? Mrs. Glanzman said. ?Now, with what?s on there, well?I don?t know.?
While he stopped doing news decades ago and has become known in recent years?for his Biblically themed illustrations for churches and the book?Soul Sisters: Women in Scripture Speak to Women Today?by?Edwina Gateley, TIME is still one of his first loves.
I know that TIME covers are something dear to him because I know Lou.?
We did a children?s book together called "Dreamcatchers" that he illustrated. He is a tiny, wisp of a man, with a bald pate and tufty white hair on the sides of his head, eyes sharp and twinkling with mischief and a cigarillo in a short holder always at hand.
We launched that book at The National Arts Club (NAC) in Manhattan and Barnes and Noble in Union Square the night before the 911 attacks hit the city. The NAC was holding an exhibition of his private collection of his TIME cover art and other paintings and sketches of JFK. Lou and I had chosen not to keep our extra day in the city because he was very tired and 9/11 is my wedding anniversary and I wanted to be with my hubby.
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