Swimsuits, Centerfolds and the Female Media Form
SI and Playboy made a notable splash this past February.
At the beginning of February, Dree Hemingway, the great-granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, was revealed as Playboy magazine’s first non-nude centerfold. Two weeks later, Sports Illustrated was heralding Ashley Graham as the Swimsuit Edition’s first plus-size cover model. In 2016, for the first time, there were three separate issue covers.
The very first issue of Playboy arrived in December of 1953; the inaugural issue of Sports Illustrated, Aug. 16, 1954; and the first retail version of Photoshop, for Macintosh computers only, hit stores in 1990.
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