Friday, February 8, 2008

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

Dafydd Jones, Mick Jagger, Madonna and Tony Curtis, 1997

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 at the National Portrait Gallery in London:


This exhibition of about 150 portraits taken for Vanity Fair includes such subjects as Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Harlow published during the magazine's first incarnation from 1913-36, and Madonna, President Reagan and Scarlett Johansson published since its relaunch in 1983. It includes works by Edward Steichen, Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino. The show is sponsored by Burberry. Above right, Dafydd Jones, Mick Jagger, Madonna and Tony Curtis, 1997.


To learn more: www.npg.org.uk

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