Response: Historical Vogue

This week we had to do a presentation on a historical magazine of our choice. I chose Vogue, a longtime magazine favorite of mine, from the 1950s. Vogue was being done a lot so I was worried about how it would differ from everyone else's other decades, but there were quite a few differences. I found the visible changing in the covers and spreads through the work of Alex Liberman very interesting to see and liked learning about his influence on the direction the magazine took. I think the 1950s showed a move from the past to the future with the move from modernist covers to the use of up-close models on the covers, which is where the magazine was directed from the late 1950s on.