50 Years of Rolling Stone by Jann S. Wenner

Author:Jann S. Wenner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2017-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Michael Jackson, Los Angeles, 1983.

Nirvana, Melbourne, Australia, 1992.

‘The postwar generation was raised with this sense of unlimited possibility,” Bill Clinton said in a 1992 ROLLING STONE Interview before he was elected. “I think, fundamentally, people in our generation are much more idealistic than a lot of others have been, ’cause we were raised to believe things were possible, that we can make a difference.” In the Nineties, there was a shift as a new generation took over the White House, bringing a fresh sense of hope. But there was another shift as well, as the music of Nirvana and Dr. Dre put a different generation center stage in popular culture and took the dreams of the Sixties to darker places. “For a few years in Seattle, it was the Summer of Love, and it was so great,” Kurt Cobain told the magazine in 1993. “It was a celebration of something that no one could put their finger on. But once it got into the mainstream, it was over.” ¶ ROLLING STONE became a place where these two generations spoke to each other, their visions presented with power and clarity and often accompanied by photographs from Mark Seliger, who became the magazine’s third chief photographer. Seliger created iconic cover images of Clinton, Cobain, and Dre and Snoop Dogg. His work brought a playful conceptual edge to shots of the Seinfeld cast and startling intimacy to a portrait of Jennifer Aniston. ¶ As ROLLING STONE’s visuals continued to develop, so did its journalistic mission. The Nineties saw powerful work from William Greider, whose investigation of mandatory-minimum sentences exposed a growing prison state within America, and Eric Schlosser, whose future bestseller Fast Food Nation began as a ROLLING STONE series.

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