Vanity Fair - The Africa Covers
Written on June 8, 2007
As you may have seen on the newstands, the new Vanity Fair devoted to issues related to Africa are out, guest edited by humanitarian/activist Bono, who I also heard sings in a band. No less than 20 covers were shot for it by lensman extraordinaire Annie Liebovitz. I haven’t had a chance to check it out myself, but this was an extremely impressive feat putting it all together.
A very good producer friend of mine in the business, who works for a certain prominent agency, always said that they liked to hire from the editorial world. Now I fully understand why. According to Graydon Carter’s Editor’s letter, Annie travelled 47,835 miles for this project over the span of two months. Imagine producing that shoot.
My two favourite covers from the series…
There are some other great bits on the Vanity Fair site, a behind-the-scenes video of the shoots and a slideshow of all twenty covers.
Filed in: Editorial.
bono is “awesome”. sidenote, thought it interesting they got the President to pose for Annie. i could imagine that being a bitch to produce…”hi, secret service? yes, we would need him for like 1-2 hours. my name? oh, and my social security number? tax returns? geeshus”
If you read the articles, Bono arranged the shoot personally with Karl Rove.