My Favorite Cover


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O, The Oprah Magazine, September, Hair!
"It just might be one of the great hair days of all time. For O, The Oprah Magazine’s September 2013 hair-a-palooza issue, photographer Ruven Afanador captured Oprah Winfrey radiant in a magnificent Afro. (As was widely reported, the wig, which Oprah christened “Wild Thang,” weighed about the same as a Chihuahua.) The cover sparked “’Froprah” mania, garnering 337,346,650 media impressions; Oprah’s Instagram of the image drew some 75,000 likes in 24 hours. After 13 years and more than 160 issues with the same cover model (how’s that for a challenge?), O can still surprise, delight, and pump up the volume like nobody else."

This is definitely my favorite cover because I am a huge fan of Oprah and hair! There is a composition rule of simplicity in this photo, putting Oprah against a solid colored background making her stand out. Something I wish that the photographer would have done differently is the over all color contrast because she stands out, but not as much as she could if she maybe had a different color dress on, or the background was a different color. The magazine connects to the audience through the typed text around the page, stating different things like questions readers can think about or big bolded letters (in this case "HAIR"). This communicates to the viewers what the magazine is about, and some of the info you can get from it. 

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