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To
coincide with the release of her new album “Vespertine” (August 27 2001), Björk
has turned her sights to the printed page.
The eponymously titled book has been created by Björk and has been edited and
designed by celebrated Paris based design firm M/M <Paris> who are
renowned for their work with Visionaire magazine, Yohji Yamamoto and Balenciaga
(amongst others) and who are increasingly collaborating with Björk. The book is
a breathtaking photographic representation of the creation of a cultural icon
and documents the journey from private person to public figure. The book is
non-chronological and all the images have been specifically chosen to illustrate
this creative process.
The book is divided into 3 sections:
PHOTOGRAPHY
- a
series of photographs of Björk taken by Nick Knight, Inez Van Lamsweerde and
Vinoodh Matadin, Araki, Chris Cunningham, Juergen Teller and Craig McDean
amongst others.
WORDS
– text
pieces, including an interview conducted by Björk with her long time
inspirational hero David Attenborough.
CONTRIBUTIONS (‘Four Pages for Björk’)
– wherein Björk asks her closest collaborators to contribute 4 pages to
illustrate her belief that her public self is the result of many great and
creative minds and not just a personal product. The result is an enormously
eclectic collection of offerings indicative of the pool of talent that unites to
create one public persona.
With
a beautiful fabric dust jacket featuring block foiled text on the front and an
embossed hand- glued photograph on the back, the book boasts contributions from
the world’s top photographers, video directors, fashion designers and Björk’s
close musical and literary collaborators as well as by Björk herself.
Small and flexible in design, the book has text on the cover rather than a
celebrity photograph and has been designed as a transportable working manual
rather than a traditional, hardback, coffee-table book - the concept of the book
is unparalleled and the content is both beautiful and unique
.
A
must have, not only for Björk’s admirers, but for anyone interested in music,
popular culture, fashion and design or for those simply craving an object of
beauty for their bookshelf.
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