Autumn 2018
Tales from the West Coast
With its origins in ‘live journalism’ shows, The California Sunday Magazine achieves its narrative power through a cinematic approach to photography and type
Before it ever reached print, The California Sunday Magazine was a stage show called Pop-Up Magazine. Writers, photographers, film-makers, musicians and radio and podcast producers gathered to perform new, true stories in an attempt, as the show’s co-founder and editor-in-chief Doug McGray describes it, to mirror great pop-up books, where two dimensions spring to life in ways that are thrilling and surprising. Since the first performances in 2009, these ‘live magazine’ shows continue to sell out in minutes.
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Spread from August 2017. The lettering was designed in-house by art director Annie Jen, and demonstrates The California Sunday Magazine’s flexible typographic approach. Photos: Oriana Koren.
Top: Spreads from April 2017 showing Corey Arnold’s shots of grubby, Bald Eagles.
June 2018 cover, with windows shattered by a lone gunman in Las Vegas. Photo: Joshua Dudley Greer.
Patrick Baglee, writer, California
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