WWD: Vanity Fair Bono-edited issue has 20 different covers

WWD.com Authoritative coverage of the Media Industry from WWD: "COLLECT 'EM ALL: It's going to take more than one coffee table to carry July's Vanity Fair, since there will be 20 editions of the Cond�Nast monthly for consumers to collect. The Bono guest-edited Africa issue will hit newsstands today. And if overfilling pockets at newsstands isn't enough to attract readers' attention, perhaps a giant display on Madison Avenue will be. Barneys New York will display all 20 of the covers in its windows through June 19.

Annie Leibovitz shot all the covers to capture what looks like a game of telephone among international icons discussing the crisis in Africa. The list of subjects read like a who's who of Africa awareness: Warren Buffett, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Desmond Tutu, Oprah Winfrey, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Rock, Muhammad Ali, Jay-Z, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Iman, to name a few. Each photo shows two subjects conversing with each other — Don Cheadle talking with Barack Obama, Madonna speaking with Maya Angelou, Queen Rania of Jordan speaking to Bono. 'These are incredible people of our time who all have a passion for and a connection to Africa,' said Leibovitz. 'It was important to me to really show the humanity in their faces.'"