celeb news New York Times: Renaissance cover one of the photos that defined the modern age

[PrettyHurts]

No, it defines all of human history 

[Blade Runner]

wtf lol

 

Love my girl, but these news outlets sometimes do too much. 

Edited June 4 by Blade Runner

[KatyPrismSpirit]

if they didnt pick renaissance i would've suggested one of these

 

[Kisuke]

Period

[kimberly]

T.A.B.S. 

[Matthew]

3 hours ago, Shinning said:

And both are more iconic and impactful than any Gaga album so why are you even talking?

I wasn't coming for her. I was saying, of her albums, Lemonade should have been chosen. It absolutely deserves a spot. 

[Navyofbadgals]

love her, love the picture but my god it's a whiplash to see the rest of the pictures before it and then scroll down to that, some that literally changed the course of history.. and then to see that  they need to be fr

[Kimi]

Like half of their picks are examples of iconic powerful pics like Unidentified Man Blocking a Column of Tanks in Tiananmen Square and the other half are some totally irrelevant moments american culture is so strange rn

[Kimi]

Vellam: Does anybody else feel like we're missing a pop-culture celebrity moment? If we're talking about images that go everywhere, and that people who live in the middle of the country all are going to look at, I don't feel we have that.

Douglas: I think it's important to include the idea of celebrity culture in photography. I'm not quite sure what that would be.

Lê: There's the [2017] picture of Beyoncé pregnant with all the flowers.

Miller: Initially, Shikeith had also picked Beyoncé from the album cover of "Dangerously in Love" (2003).

Marcoci: But sorry, why don't we then just choose a [Richard] Avedon of a celebrity?

Vellam: Marilyn Monroe [from 1957]. But don't we feel like we have plenty of photographs from the past? Don't we want to think about what celebrity is now?

Miller: What's the iconic pop culture image from the last five years?

Douglas: Is there a Kardashian image?

Vellam: I can't, because I hate them so much. But yes, you want the thing of [Kim Kardashian] when she broke the internet with her butt [an image that ran on the cover of Paper magazine in 2014].

Douglas: I'm going back to Beyoncé, because [you want] an image of a celebrity who's not a person but an image. She's like a simulacrum somehow.

Vellam: With her "Renaissance" cover, suddenly she was plastered everywhere. It was all over the city.

Douglas: I'd buy that.

Shikeith: I think it's very important that she released this album and highlighted Black queer contributions to music in the culture because, very frequently, those same contributions are erased or attributed to someone else. Especially in pop culture.

Marcoci: Can you hold it up on your phone?

Vellam: Yeah. I listen to it all the time.

 

they really posted that next to Ren. You can't make this **** up

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[Johnny Cash]

The compulsive need to insert her into everything

[Bookmark99]

LOL...no

[Mordecai]

4 hours ago, makeme said:

Can someone include other images? What was the top 5?

I ended up reading the article (I find things like this very interesting) and only recognised like 3 or 4  it was a terrible list. The ones I recognised were the photo of a man setting himself on fire, Che Guevara, Tianamen Square and Emmett Till's dead body. They included a photo of the Earth from the moon even though the photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon is 1000x more iconic and known 

[DorothyVallens]

5 hours ago, byzantium said:

It's literally an American newspaper.  Why would you expect it to be talking about your country?  

Because it literally says "photos that defined modern age" and "changed the world"? I'm not expecting it to be talking about my country, but the Renaissance cover out of millions of photos seems like there's a bias, no?

[Gui Blackout]

So we're just saying stuff now 

[Domination]

The nerve to even say this  

 

Beat for beat, SOS is a far more iconic image from a bigger album released by a black woman in 2022 that also features a heavily referential cover. And the media class wonders why they've lost all credibility. 

[yonsé]

8 hours ago, Jay07 said:

It is absolutely an iconic image of 21st century music. I can understand why fans of artists who couldn't create an iconic moment if their lives depended on it are quick to devalue Beyonce and say people only pretend to like a Black genius for "woke points", it's been a constant across history and exemplified wonderfully in the rest of that article.

very well said!

[Liafen]

 I wouldn't even say it is her most iconic in terms of meaning behind the cover and etc. Even Cowboy Carter is stronger. But when you're considering all of celebrity culture, one could literally give a million more iconic pictures. Britney's meltdown has two powerful images, Kim's Paper mag, covers of albums like Thriller, Like a Prayer, True Blue, the sex book... I could go on for ages.

[KatyPrismSpirit]

Just now, Liafen said:

 I wouldn't even say it is her most iconic in terms of meaning behind the cover and etc. Even Cowboy Carter is stronger. But when you're considering all of celebrity culture, one could literally give a million more iconic pictures. Britney's meltdown has two powerful images, Kim's Paper mag, covers of albums like Thriller, Like a Prayer, True Blue, the sex book... I could go on for ages.

yeah, i think the renaissance cover was picked because they wanted a picture to encapsulate post-lockdown joy, and Renaissance describes that pretty well from a mainstream standpoint.