Steve Jobs TIME Magazine Cover 2011

by NowPublic Staff | October 6, 2011 at 07:26 am

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Steve Jobs Makes the Cover of TIME for 8th Time

Steve Jobs will be featured on the cover of TIME Magazine's upcoming issue. This is the Apple co-founder's eighth appearance on the cover of TIME. Upon notice of Steve Jobs' death, TIME literally stopped the presses to feature the man behind the iPad.

Steve Jobs also made the cover of TIME in:

February 1982
August 1997
October 1999
January 2002
October 2005
April 2007 (as part of a collage)
April 2010

The Steve Jobs cover, which you can see below, features the young entrepreneur holding an Apple Macintosh, so daring at the time with its all-in-one design. (Are there any photos out there of Steve Jobs with an Apple ii?)

The original photo was taken by Norman Seeff in 1984; the version used for the Steve Jobs obituary issue has been 'shopped to remove the background. Seeff describes the unusual photo session below:

I was beginning to build a level of intimacy with him, and then he rushed off, and came back in and plopped down in that pose. He spontaneously sat down with a Macintosh in his lap. I got the shot the first time. We did do a few more shots later on, and he even did a few yoga poses—he lifted his leg and put it over his shoulder—and I just thought we were two guys hanging out, chatting away, and enjoying the relationship. It wasn’t like there was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, spontaneity that we never thought would become a magazine image.

Read TIME's obituary and retrospective on Steve Jobs: