Written and directed by Samuel Benchetrit. Worldwide revealed on the occasion of the presentation of Yves Saint Laurent creative director Stefano Pilati’s Collection Homme Printemps/Eté 2010 on wednesday, June 24, 2009 in Paris.
The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, The September Issue, directed and produced by R.J. Cutler, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion.
The September Issue won the Grand Jury Prize for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Coming out bi-annually, each issue of Alaska will collate the best of previously unpublished contemporary photography, both from established and emerging image makers around the world. Each issue will change in format, presenting a different look for each edition, pushing the two elements of traditonal book binding and modern print technology to the highest of levels. Ultimately created to challenge boundaries and urge the exploration of new and unfamiliar territory in contemporary photographic art.
Issue #1 brought together the work of 21 international artists and was published in a individually numbered edition of 1000 copies worldwide. Issue #2 launched in May 2009 gathers work from artists like Edward Burtynsky, Joseph Szabo, Julie Verhoeven, this time published in a individually numbered edition of 333 worldwide. Ethically printed, quarter-bound in velvet with an uncoated recycled card-board cover with gold edged pages.
David Dorrell is a self-confessed autodidact who has always found fascination poking around in the entrails of what passes as pop culture whether writing one line Situationist poems for The Modern World fanzine as a teen Punk, ushering the word Goth into popular usage as a writer at the NME during his twenties or mixing Dada ‘cut-up’ with Grandmaster Flash to produce ‘Pump Up The Volume’ as M|A|R|RS.
His obsession with language, meaning and symbology has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape. His recent solo show, ‘Roost’, at London’s MEN Gallery saw him spend the four days and three nights of Easter locked in the gallery with two chickens and a rifle as he echoed Beuys’ ‘I like America, America likes me’ action in the context of financial meltdown, artificial Global Pandemics, Pop Art, the fear of assassination in the Public Mind, Vodou ritual, Voodoo economics, the charade of the Vote and the advent of late-stage Capitalism.
He lives in London with his Messiah complex.
Mix by David Dorrell, engineered by Kevin Swain.
Read the David Dorrel’s own notes to the track listing here