April 14, 2012
Kal
 April 30, 2012
Thomas Fluharty
 June 1, 2012
Howard McWilliam
 June 16, 2012
iStockphoto
 July 2012
Tina Schrider/Froghouse
Photography.

July 27, 2012
Fred Harper
 July 28, 2012
 Sept. 2012
Tom Richmond
 Sept. 2012
Alison Jackson
 Aug. 19, 2012
Andy Friedman

Sept. 2012
Zela Lobb
 Sept. 2012
Photo by Sam Kaplan;
button design Gail
Anderson and Joe Newton
 Aug. 25, 2012
BO-UPI / Brian Kersey;
MR-Associated Press /
Cliff Owen
 Sept. 2012
Chris Hiers

 Oct. 1, 2012
Steve Brodner

Sept. 21, 2012
Howard McWilliam
 Oct. 2012
BO: Chung Sung-Jun
MR: Bill Pugliano
both Getty Images
 Sept. 22, 2012
Boston-Shutterstock;
Chicago-iStockphoto
 Oct. 8, 2012
Newscom
 		Oct. 6, 2012
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Oct. 15, 2012
Dylan Roscover for Time
 Oct. 15, 2012
Barry Blitt
 Oct. 15, 2012
Thomas Fluharty
 Oct. 19, 2012
Howard McWilliam
 Nov. 2, 2012
Howard McWilliam

Nov. 2012
Lindsey Burrows
 Nov. 2012
Ken Davis
 Nov. 3, 2012
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Richard Cowdrey for
World
 		Nov. 12, 2012
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Nov. 19, 2012
Steve Brodner
 Nov. 26, 2012
Steve Brodner




Note: Organized roughly chronologically.  Issue dates are often several days to several weeks later than when the magazine actually comes out.

The story behind The Atlantic's Sept. 2012 cover is rather amazing.  Although the image looks like a painting it is actually a photo.   Luke Hayman, a partner at the design firm Pentagram, described how it came about in an Aug. 22 article on The Atlantic's website.  They found stand-ins for Romney and Obama, spent a full day in the gym, and British photographer Alison Jackson shot about 15,000 frames.  (see: "Slugfest 2012: The Making of The Atlantic's September Cover.")


In a July 23, 2012 emaill photographer Tina Lynn Schrider described the development of the Washington Monthly cover:
I go to DC once a month to shoot images for my sister, Sandra Longman's online store. I was on my way in May and her husband, Phillip, contacted me and asked me if I would be willing to shoot the cover that weekend.

I had my lights, defuser, umbrellas and other equipment with me so it was a go from the start.

Phil and Paul Glastris [editor in chief of the magazine] had the concept in their minds of a middle aged, middle class couple sitting at the kitchen table, frustrated over money, with a TV in the background showing Obama and Romney split screened on it...with the headline...'the debate they are not having'. We gathered bills, receipts, coupons, scissors, and anything else we could think of to set the scene. We were trying to decide who to use as models on the cover. It was ironic and genius to use Phillip Longman as the man since this issue was kind of his baby, and then we ended up convincing my sister to 'play' the wife. So the familiarity and chemistry was already there and did not have to be faked.

We shot for 3+ hours on that Saturday morning in Paul's kitchen, amongst bagels, coffee, cream cheese and his lovely family. We ended up clearing the kitchen, taking down a light fixture and putting up my lights. I used my Nikon D90 along with a couple different lenses, and the natural morning light coming in the window behind Sandy and Phil defused with a sheer that I always carry in my bags. Sandy and Phil just talked and emoted what any couple might do when they are having the 'money' discussion, I shot, we talked, moved things, shot some more, til we 'saw' the image we were looking for in my camera. Paul felt very strongly that one of them should be looking at the camera and making a connection...so when Phil made the face and Sandy was doing her thing, we actually KNEW that image was the one we wanted at the time!

I LOVE it when that happens. After editing and sending over the images to WM the rest is history.

The split screen was done by the art director at Washington Monthly.

The most difficult part of the job was keeping everyone's energy up at the shoot itself. It can be very draining putting on a 'fake' discussion and then taking a break, and doing it again and again. But we did it and seems like we got across exactly what we wanted to, which makes me and every one at WM extremely happy!