Interview (magazine)
Interview is a monthly American lifestyle magazine consisting of a mixture of features and interviews by and with celebrities from the arts and entertainment (30% of editorial content) and a high proportion of commercial ads (70 % ), where part of editorial and ads creatively merge. Interview was founded in 1969 by the Pop Art artist Andy Warhol and the journalist John Wilcock self-publishing company Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc. in New York. The magazine is considered the forerunner of today's Zeitgeist, lifestyle and fashion publications. Since 2011 there is also a Russian and a German since 2012 issue of the journal.
History
Prehistory
Andy Warhol began in the late 1960s, all exhibition openings, parties, events or events of his factory in picture and sound to be recorded. To this end, he usually wore a Polaroid camera and a portable tape recorder with him. The Polaroids he often processed further to new screen prints for his paintings and multiples; for the tape recordings, most of which contained belang loose scraps of conversation and small talk, he, however, had no particular use. Some of this he used as dialogues for his films, another flowed in his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again one. Mostly he had the footage of the staff of his Factory transcribe with the remark that everything was to bring in written form unedited verbatim (including interjections ). In 1969, the young art student Pat Hackett took over the secretariat of the Factory and recorded from then on up to Warhol's death, responsible for the transcripts.
Andy Warhol 's Interview
One day brought the journalist John Wilcock, who ran a composing room at the time, Warhol on the idea to make the manuscripts a magazine. Warhol explained the origin as follows: " [ ... ] tapes open great opportunities for interviews with various celebrities. I started a magazine with nothing to think as interviews. Then John Wilcock came by one day and asked me if I would start a newspaper with him. I said yes. " Wilcock was responsible for the set, the costs were shared. The first issue appeared in the fall of 1969 with the set in lowercase title head inter / view. Warhol and Wilcock changed the name soon in the interview. 1970 rose from Wilcock from the project and Warhol put his name in the title: Andy Warhol 's Interview. The title page was initially designed by the graphic artist Richard F. Bernstein, who impersonated Warhol significantly garish imagery in a pastel-colored style. Chief editor was first Warhol's long -time assistant Gerard Malanga was however replaced by a discrepancy with Pat Hackett Warhol by Paul Morrissey. As another editor Warhol and Morrisey dedicated to young film students Bob Colacello. In the beginning, Warhol led the most " interviews " even themselves by letting just run along at parties or in nightclubs like Studio 54 the tape. The contributions were often taken unedited into the leaf. During the 1970s, the publication experienced with the emerging yuppie generation a boom. In addition to Warhol and his editors written over the years, many celebrities such as Bianca Jagger and Truman Capote to contribute to any interview.
Presence
In the 1980s, Warhol drew largely back from the magazine and gave Bob Colacello the line, which is increasingly turning the tide in a fashion magazine. What is known is that Warhol until his death in his own way to the distribution of its magazine " cared " by often distributed free copies signed in the streets of Manhattan.
After Warhol's death in 1987, the magazine of Brant Publications Inc. was acquired.
Importance
The glossy magazine was and is intended for the upper middle class, and maintains large-scale, graphically elaborate displays of exclusive designer and fashion labels paired with photos of stars and starlets that are stylistically indistinguishable from the advertising aesthetics of the ads. Interview did not contribute negligibly to notice so-called It-girls, the. From the "Girls of the Year" of the 1950s and 1960s have emerged in the U.S.