The year in magazine covers: These were the most talked-about images of 2014 — salon.com

Topics: , , , , , , , , , , Entertainment News Magazine covers have always been conversation starters, from Muhammad Ali impailed by arrows on Esquire to pregnant Demi Moore naked on Vanity Fair. Yet as fewer and fewer people read print magazines cover-to-cover, the image itself  has become less a part of a coherent whole than a piece of snackable content, a ready-made meme to be broken off and dissected, even if the corresponding article never gets read.

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