(Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen, 1924)
(Legends of Hollywood - Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz - by Annie Leibovitz, 2001)Vanity Fair magazine has an impressive photographic collection. The National Portrait Gallery exhibition includes vintage and modern prints and celebrates the masters of this great art form, from Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Helmut Newton and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino.
Vanity Fair's first period, from 1913 to 1936, is represented with portraits of personalities such as Albert Einstein, Charles Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
Vanity Fair suspended publication in 1936. The second period, from the resurrection of the magazine in 1983 up to the present day, includes film and theatre stars as well as writers, athletes, style icons, and business titans, with portraits of Robert De Niro, Arthur Miller, Demi Moore and Margaret Thatcher amongst many others.
