In my opinion the second to the last photo makes a better newsstand cover and the close up black and white one could make an awesome subscriber's cover 😊
These are not good photos at all and not at all a great representation of a very handsome subject. He looks tired and so dishevelled. Maybe it was for a role, but even so, big pass for me.
^^^ That version of the cover is the only tolerable image in the entire issue.
Whenever Norman Jean Roy isn’t helming the coverstory, this Esquire instantly plummets into a dusty, dull, dated aesthetic. Mark Seliger is intolerably dated and obnoxiously cliched. These celebs need to slap any photographer that suggests a screaming pose; That sensibility he’s deployed in the mid-2000s for John Varvatos and featuring some annoying person like Perry Farrell needs to be forever left behind in 2004, like Juicy Couture. (...Perry Farrell also gets a 2-page feature in this issue, looking like Caitlyn Jenner’s elderly sis with his brand new squeaky, shiny, tightly-pulled facelift.)
The b&w close-up cover appears on the newsstands and the color cover is sent to subscribers. I prefer the newsstand cover. The entire shoot does not look special in any shape or form. However, I prefer the photography and styling inside featuring comedian Hasan Minhaj. It is shot by Guy Aroch and styled by Nick Sullivan.
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