Monday, June 25, 2007

Behind the scenes at Vanity Fair

I'm a huge photography enthusiast, so I don't want you to miss this behind-the-scenes video from Vanity Fair's special Africa issue, edited by Bono. Watch renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz craft the 20 iconic covers on Vanity Fair's website. "It's a visual chain letter," says Leibovitz, "spreading the message from person to person to person."

Click here to watch:
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/video/2007/africacovers_video200707

The covers feature a prominent group of people with one thing in common – Africa – including Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Warren Buffett, George W. Bush, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Bill and Melinda Gates, Djimon Hounsou, Iman, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Madonna, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Queen Rania of Jordan, Condoleezza Rice, Chris Rock, Desmond Tutu, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono.

Pick up your copy on the newsstand now, or log on to VANITYFAIR.COM.

Don't forget, if you subscribe to Vanity Fair this month via their online sign-up at VANITYFAIR.COM, they will contribute $5 of the subscription price to the Global Fund to invest in African AIDS programs for women and children.

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1 comments:

sammi said...

i got lost in the online resources link on the pages here, i opened just one of them so far, bono's resources, and got lost for hours.

http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/07/africalinks200707#bono

i knew with this good man at the helm this month that it would be an issue of substance, and i've had it for 10 days now and still haven't finished reading it. without the resources it can be an education and inspiration, with the resources it's an activist's arsenal. hearing the 40 year history of Kenya from a Kenyan, without the west's spin on it, has been fascinating to me. at the rate i'm going i should have cleared this issue by the time the next one comes in the mail, yet i know they will return to the west's culturative relevancies . . . . i will scour for remnants of the impact of this issue here as eleven more will follow . . . . please Graydon, scout out the ripple effects of this month, and do not forget the good reports of africa here please, expound more, consider AGOA, Precious Garments, microcredit, so much more.

thanx for this blog and massive amounts of resources. i have requested my satellite carrier to bring The Africa Channel to our lineup, tho i cringe at the thot of African Soap Operas joining the others here. but news and economics and politics without the west's spin on it would be very much welcome here.

what an unprecidented impact here as was The (red) Independents and others. thanx for this, for providing so much material, equipping us to do the things we must.

stay close,

sammi =)