Vogue x Music

• Editorial: Abrams
• Año: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781683354178
• Categoría: Art
• Categoría: Photography

Vogue has always been on the cutting edge of popular culture, and Vogue x Music shows us why. Whether they're contemporary stars or classic idols, whether they made digital albums or vinyl records, the world's most popular musicians have always graced the pages of Vogue. In this book you'll find unforgettable portraits of Madonna beside David Bowie, Kendrick Lamar, and Patti Smith; St. Vincent alongside Debbie Harry, and much more. Spanning the magazine's 126 years, this breathtaking book is filled with the work of acclaimed photographers like Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz as well as daring, music-inspired fashion portfolios from Irving Penn and Steven Klein. Excerpts from essential interviews with rock stars, blues singers, rappers, and others are included on nearly every page, capturing exactly what makes each musician so indelible. Vogue x Music is a testament to star power, and proves that some looks are as timeless as your favorite albums.

VOGUE

X

MUSIC

EDITED BY

Taylor Antrim

INTRODUCTION BY

Jonathan Van Meter

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Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, 2016

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Rihanna

PREVIOUS PAGES

Steven Meisel, 1992

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Madonna

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f, as Martin Mull once famously put it, “Writing about music is like

dancing about architecture,” then visualizing music,

picturing

music,

is more instinctive—like laughing when someone else does. And it is

not simply the reflexive conjuring of, say, a sharkskin suit and fedora

when you hear “Luck Be a Lady” by Frank Sinatra, but also the strange,

synesthetic magic of being able to see where you were and what you

were doing when you first heard Sinatra. Pop music is built on this

sort of nostalgic time machine, a kind of wistful longing that verges

on too much—like being tickled. Indeed, I once read a profile of a

composer of modern classical m...