The cover of the July 13th Economist is yet another variation on the famous 1932 photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper (known in these parts as Skylunch I):
(#1) Recalling Skylunch I in content as well as form: Skylunch I celebrated working people (especially recent immigrants) and the rising NYC (and by extension, the US)
(background on Skylunch I – III: see my 7/2/19 posting “The fiberglass men of Skyunchland”)
The illustration on the cover, by Andrea Ucini:
(#2)
On Ucini, from his website:
I´m a freelance conceptual illustrator living and working in Denmark.
I was born in Italy and graduated in classical piano and composition at the Music Academy of Florence.
Music was my first source in a new form of expression. Drawing has been a deeper research in order to discover the different ways a concept or an emotion can be decoded in.
His work is widely published in newspapers and magazines, in a number of countries.
Two Economist covers of his from earlier in this year:
(#3) The panda that roared
(#4) Double-helix palms
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