TIME Cover – The Wrap-Up

As discussed in the previous posts, when illustrating articles about strengthening marriages, TIME magazine chose to use wedding imagery. Rather than show its readers a view of marriage as a living, growing organism, the magazine opted for a snapshot of the wedding day, with an emphasis on external forces tying the couple together (possibly [...]

Marriage: A Different Image

If the image of a bride and groom, tied to each other with string, does not make the best possible picture of marriage, how else could marriage be pictured? In what ways could the TIME cover picture (see post below) move beyond the limitations imposed by the focus on the wedding day? One possibility could [...]

TIME Cover: Wedding Over Marriage

This is the TIME magazine cover (February 27, 1995) mentioned in the previous post (Marriage = Wedding?); it was chosen to illustrate the topic of “strengthening marriages” (click on the image to go to the TIME Cover Archive).

While the accompanying articles are about marriages (Gleick, 1995; Van Biema, 1995), the primary association this cover image [...]

Marriage = Wedding?

What images does the word “marriage” bring to mind? In many instances, the media tends to illustrate the concept of marriage with images that belong to the “wedding” category. For example, the TIME magazine article Should This Marriage Be Saved? (Gleick, 1995) is accompanied by a cover photo that, while categorized by [...]

Images of a Dream Wedding

What are the elements of a classic American dream wedding? What images come to mind when you hear those magic words: white wedding?
Here is one take on some of the elements that a dream wedding should include. See how many you recognize:

If you’ve spent even a year living in the U.S., [...]