[WATCH]: 4535 Time magazine covers, 1923-2009

Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass / Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) / 2009-2010. Explorations of patterns in 4535 Time magazine covers, 1923-2009. ---------------------------- Data: The covers of every issue of Time magazine published from 1923 to summer 2009. Total number of covers: 4535. The large percentage of the covers included red borders. We cropped these borders and scaled all images to the same size to allow a user see more clearly the temporal patterns across all covers. ---------------------------- Timescale: 1923-2009. ---------------------------- Mapping: Time covers appear in order of publication (ie, from 1923 to 2009), arranged in a grid layout (left to right and top to bottom).

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