The good news about the choice of photos of Leonard Cohen for the cover of the March 2012 German edition of Rolling Stone is that (1) it's a photo of Leonard Cohen and (2) it's one of my favorite photos of the Canadian singer-songwriter.

The bad news about the choice of photos of Leonard Cohen for the cover of the German edition of Rolling Stone is that it's one of everybody's favorite photos of Leonard Cohen.

The shot by Platon has appeared in multiple magazines and on hundreds of web sites. Yep, it's a case of LC Déjà Vu

1. Idol Chatter by Brantley Bardin (Premiere Magazine, June 2006)
2. The Word (June 2006) found at Recycled Mags
3. Words by Leonard Cohen by Tom Payne (The Telegraph, 23 February 2012)

That image even graces the cover of DrHGuy's own Leonard Cohen Primer.

Platon also took the iconic photo that first appeared in the November 2001  issue of GQ

For another example of multiple uses of a Leonard Cohen photo, see Leonard Cohen Déjà Vu - Flexing Fingers.

Credit Due Department: Photo of Leonard Cohen on Rolling Stone cover found at Collector's Room. Photo of Leonard Cohen in GQ found at Speaking Cohen.

It's come to DrHGuy's attention that the same image of Leonard Cohen may appear on the covers of different books and periodicals and illustrate multiple articles. While the reasons behind this editorial predilection for certain photos could range from availability to personal preferences to cost to advice from a PR consultant, the phenomenon itself, even without a convincing explanation for the choices, has proved sufficiently interesting to generate a new DrHGuy classification: Leonard Cohen Déjà Vu. 

Today's example, an Everett photo of Leonard Cohen flexing his fingers, can be found perched on the cover of Leonard Cohen In His Own Words by Jim Devlin (Omnibus Press, UK 1988)

And on this cover of the Chinese translation of Beautiful Losers (Yilin Press, Taiwan 2003)

And on the front of The Ticket (The Irish Times, September 15, 2006)