Rankin是《Dazed & Confused》和《AnOther》杂志的创始人之一，并且拍摄过无数有名的专辑封面，他创造的图像让流行音乐界的许多明星找到了他们的视觉声音。

《播放》完全取材于Rankin的照片档案，这些照片拍摄的都是当代音乐界大名鼎鼎的人物——从塑造了我们的音乐全景的摇滚之神到90年代的英国入侵，以及将音乐和制作融合在一起，从而定义了今天的唱片业的美国超级明星。

《播放》按主题划分——"英雄"、"女孩帮和男孩乐队"、"酷不列颠 "和 "我的时代"，收集了Rankin最喜欢的近两百张照片，这些照片是他过去30年中拍摄的最有影响力的艺术家，从David Bowie和Elton John到Pharrell、Spice Girls、Grimes和Björk。除了他拍摄的照片，还有Rankin和这些艺术家们的轶事，讲述了摄影师和拍摄对象之间的相互关系，以及流行音乐的明星力量和时尚偶像之间的关系。

As a cofounder of Dazed & Confused and AnOther magazines, and the photographer of countless iconic album covers, Rankin creates imagery through which many stars of the pop world have found their visual voices.

Play draws exclusively on Rankin's archive of photographs of the biggest names in contemporary music--from the rock gods who shaped our musical landscape to the British Invasion of the 1990s and the American superstars who mix music and production to define what the record industry is today.

Divided by theme--"Heroes" and "Girl Gangs and Boy Bands," "Cool Britannia" and "My Generation"--

Play collects almost two hundred of Rankin's favorite images of the most influential artists of the last three decades, from David Bowie and Elton John to Pharrell, the Spice Girls, Grimes, and Björk. Alongside his photos are anecdotes from Rankin and the artists themselves on the reciprocal relationship between photographer and subject--and between the star power of pop music and the iconography of fashion.