VX: Ten Years of Vibe Photography

by Rob Kenner (Editor), George Pitts

Released to celebrate ten years of VIBE, a magazine released by Qunicy Jones in 1993 to celebrate hip hop fashion, this bold survey of the last ten years of rap includes profiles of Snoop Doggy Dogg and Puff Daddy as well as the controversial image of Tupac Shakur in a straightjacket. 40,000 first printing.

Genres: Music

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Tony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vibe was a magazine co-founded by Quincy Jones in 1993 to showcase the world of black music and became a key player in the popularization of hip-hop music and culture. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the magazine's photo editor, George Diggs, Jr., dug through the archives to pull out 150 photos that captured that first decade. Some of these were published in the magazine, some were outtakes, and some were never-published one-offs for stories that never ran. But for the most part they are portraits of hip-hop royalty of the era, ranging from high staged, stylized, cartoony (Dave LaChapelle) to technically precise, art-gallery, black and white portraiture. Mixed in are a few journalistic shots of non-celebrities, which -- while perfectly good and interesting -- don't really fit well with the overall... well... vibe. Flipping through it some twenty years later, it's kind of amusing to stumble across those who are still big (young Beyonce Knowles! Tupac and Biggie, still alive!) and who used to be. If you like magazine photography, it's kind of a fun walk down memory lane for hip-hop and R&B heads.

[Aisha Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

the pictures were so well done please check this out