The Photographs He Left
Closed mid-August 1992 · On stands late August 1992
The Front
Masthead Notes
Graydon Carter takes over Vanity Fair this month — a change of editors at a peer publication, noted for the trade
Index of the Quarter
Numbers of the summer — factory shifts added back, drought acres reported, the count of a single convention week's hotel rooms
The Essay
The Deal Nobody Signed
A season's worth of corporate mergers read as a single, slow negotiation with no single signature
The Foreign File
The Airlift
The UN authorizes an emergency airlift into famine-stricken Somalia this month — a stringer's notes from a runway that can't keep pace with the need
The Feature Well
The Restorer
A profile of a conservator working through a regional museum's summer backlog in the Midwest
The City
Subject: A Tompkins Square afternoon, the summer's usual business
The Back
Books: A review of the summer's photography monographs · Art: An appreciation of David Wojnarowicz's photography and the Peter Hujar deathbed images, on his death July 22; the NEA catalog-essay funding fight covered separately, as a policy story · Film: The season's pictures, and a comedy's surprise August opening outgrossing the summer's tentpole