Each selection is significant and accompanied by a short text. curator and photography critic Vince Aletti, a collector of magazines since 1965, has turned his own archive into a comprehensive study of the fashion images that have defined the past century. Recalling the clothes we wore, the trends we tried and the celebrities we followed, their musty pages act like Proustian time capsules for a bygone era. "As any magazine hoarder will know, there is a nostalgic kind of joy to be found in opening up an old glossy. Vince's fascination with the history of magazine publishing might have led him to go to extreme lengths in securing issues that fill the gaps, but the resulting book has made it something accessible to everyone: the first magazine in Issues is a 1925 issue of Harper's Bazaar, and many of the spreads from these historic issues are being republished for the first time."- i-D His sprawling knowledge of photographers, art directors and celebrities is legendary.
"Vince's obsession with print has seen him amass what is likely the largest personal collection of magazines in the world. It highlights certain issues of these magazines, with notes from Aletti on why they are both personal and widely significant."- The Face "Catalogues the seminal work of photographers like Irving Penn, Steven Meisel and others, splashed across the pages of magazines like Vogue Italia, V and Dutch. " Issues is a testament to the abundance of marvelous photographs that haven't been digitized."- WSJ.
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