"Janet Jackson was featured on the <a href=""http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/1993-rolling-stone-covers-20040512/rs665-janet-jackson-20346818"" target=""_blank"">September 1993 cover</a> of Rolling Stone with a pair of hands covering her breasts. The photograph came from a session Patrick Demarchelier shot while producing artwork for the cover of the sexually charged ""Janet"" album. ""We had a choice of shooting her ourselves,"" Laurie Kratochvil, Rolling Stone's director of photography, <a href=""http://articles.latimes.com/1993-08-29/entertainment/ca-28989_1_janet-jackson"" target=""_blank"">told the Los Angeles Times</a>. ""But they offered us this and the image is very powerful."" The provocative image shocked the world and established Jackson's status as a sex symbol."