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[FASHION]. MCKENNA, Joe. Joe’s Magazine. First Issue. [New York: Joe McKenna, 1992]. Folio. Original wrappers. In the original shrinkwrap and price sticker. Fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE AND SOUGHT-AFTER FIRST ISSUE. The first issue (only 2 issues were published - the second was published in 1998) of this influential fashion and photography magazine. Contributors include Bruce Weber, Paul Cadmus and Dirk Bogarde. “The first issue of Joe’s, the brainchild of the stylist Joe McKenna, was published in 1992, and the second in 1998. They have stood the test of time because, unlike the barrage of new magazines that have followed, Joe’s paid little attention to celebrities, and even less to advertiser demands. At the height of the supermodel era, McKenna gave his first cover to the most divine woman of all time — the Virgin Mary, who was depicted looking upward and serenely exhaling a cloud of smoke, presumably from a heavenly roll-up. What publication today would include in its debut a feature on the early-’70s model Wallis Franken (wearing, in one instance, only a couple of strategically placed Band- Aids), a tribute to the actor Dirk Bogarde, a lengthy piece on Tennessee Williams and a conversation with the painter Paul Cadmus?” (“No Ordinary Joe” by Armand Limnander, New York Times, 2007).