Interview (magazine)
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| description | Lifestyle magazine |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Brant Publications Inc., New York City |
| First edition | 1969 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 38,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Glenn O'Brien |
| editor | David Hamilton |
| Web link | interviewmagazine.com |
| ISSN |
0149-8932 |
Interview is a monthly American lifestyle - magazine consisting of a mixture of features and interviews by and with celebrities of culture and entertainment (30% editorial content) and a high proportion of commercial advertisements (70%), whereby editorial section and ads merge into one another in terms of design. Interview was founded in 1969 by the pop art artist Andy Warhol and the journalist John Wilcock and was self-published by Andy Warhol Enterprises Inc. in New York . The magazine is considered the forerunner of today's zeitgeist , lifestyle and fashion publications. Since 2011 there has also been a Russian and since 2012 a German edition of the magazine.
history
prehistory
From the end of the 1960s Andy Warhol began to record all exhibition openings, parties, events and events in his factory in image and sound. For this purpose he usually carried a Polaroid camera and a portable cassette recorder with him. He often processed the Polaroids into new screen prints for his pictures and multiples ; for the tape recordings, which mostly contained inconsequential scraps of conversation and small talk , it had no particular use. Some of it he used as dialogue for his films, others flowed into his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again . Mostly he was with the memo recordings by employees of his factory transcribe that everything verbatim unedited (including interjections was to bring) in written form. From 1969, the young art student Pat Hackett took over the factory's secretariat and was responsible for the transcripts from then on until Warhol's death.
Andy Warhol's interview
One day the journalist John Wilcock, who was running a typesetting shop at the time, gave Warhol the idea of turning the manuscripts into a magazine. Warhol explained the creation as follows: “[...] tapes open up great opportunities for interviews with a wide variety of celebrities. I started thinking about a magazine with nothing but interviews. Then one day John Wilcock came by and asked me if I would start a newspaper with him. I said yes. ” Wilcock wrote the sentence, the costs were shared. The first edition appeared in autumn 1969 with the title inter / view in lower case letters . Warhol and Wilcock soon changed the name to Interview. In 1970 Wilcock left 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 imitated Warhol's significantly garish imagery in a pastel-colored style. Editor-in-chief was Warhol's longtime assistant Gerard Malanga, who was replaced by Paul Morrissey after a discrepancy with Pat Hackett from Warhol . Warhol and Morrisey hired the young film student Bob Colacello as a further editor . In the early days, Warhol conducted most of the “interviews” himself by simply running the tape at parties or in discos like Studio 54 . The contributions were often taken unedited in the paper. During the 1970s, the publication experienced a boom with the emerging yuppie generation. In addition to Warhol and his editors, numerous celebrities such as Bianca Jagger and Truman Capote have written their own articles in interviews over the years .
present
In the 1980s, Warhol largely withdrew from the magazine and left the management to Bob Colacello, who increasingly transformed the paper into a fashion magazine. It is known that Warhol "looked after" the distribution of his magazine in his own way until his death, often distributing signed free copies in the streets of Manhattan.
After Warhol's death in 1987, the magazine was taken over by Brant Publications Inc.
meaning
The glossy magazine was and is intended for the upper middle class and maintains large-format, graphically elaborate advertisements from exclusive designer and fashion labels paired with photos of stars and starlets, which are stylistically indistinguishable from the advertising aesthetics of the advertisements. Interview made a significant contribution to the announcement of the so-called It Girls who emerged from the “Girls of the Year” in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s.
Web links
- Interview Magazine (English)
- Andy Warhol's "Interview" Magazine (English)
swell
- ↑ Data see Wikipedia Interview (magazine)
- ↑ Andy Warhol: POPism S. 292
- ^ Stefania Sabin: Andy Warhol. Rowohlt, 1992, pp. 100ff., ISBN 3-499-50485-5