VANITY FAIR – Portraits of an Age 1914 – 1936

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VANITY FAIR – Portraits of an Age 1914 – 1936

`These portraits are a landmark in the history of human exchange....
It is time they were set free to live a life of their own.'
– John Russell

The extraordinary photographs in this collection—portraits of many of the most celebrated American and European writers, artists, musicians, actors, athletes and public figures of our century—were discovered a few years ago in a locked file cabinet at the offices of Condé Nast Publications. Many were originally published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1914 and 1936 and have been widely reproduced. Others have never been reproduced since their first publication in the magazine and some have never been published at all. The best of this treasure trove is now preserved in Vanity Fair: Portraits of an Age.

The magazine Vanity Fair was not intended to be a `picture' magazine. Yet it is generally agreed now that the portraits that appeared regularly in its pages were its best and most enduring feature. Frank Crowninshield, its editor, had a special flair for recognizing and employing a group of unusual photographers, many of them unknown at the time. As John Russell points out, never before or since has a magazine editor had such an array of talented photographers: Steichen, Man Ray, Beaton, Muray, Abbott, Sander.

Crowninshield also had an uncanny ability to recognize a personality who would later become famous. Though the names in this volume are familiar, many of the faces are not, and it is fascinating to see what, for example, Claude Monet. Joseph Conrad. Walter Gropius looked like. Many of the faces are familiar: Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert. Cary Grant, the Lunts, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich. Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Colette. D. H. Lawrence. George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce. Eugene O'Neill, Winston Churchill. Joseph Stalin. Albert Einstein. Some, such as James Cagney. Ernest Hemingway and Fred and Adele Astaire. were captured well before they had acquired their public image. As Russell says. the readers of Vanity Fair `must have been impressed subliminally by the fact that again and again what faced them on the pages was a definitive likeness, a likeness never to be bettered, a work of art in its own right.'

More than 200 photographs are exquisitely reproduced in Vanity Fair: Portraits of an Age. Every care was taken with the choice of paper and the printing process to achieve an image as close to the original as possible. The subjects, the photography and the reproduction all combine to make this one of the most exciting and uncommon collections ever assembled.


THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Man Ray
Baron de Meyer
Alfred Stieglitz
Cecil Beaton
Horst
Berenice Abbott
Edward Steichen
Charles Sheeler
James Abbé
George Hoyningen-Huené
Malcolm Arbuthnot
Imogen Cunningham
Edward Weston
Maurice Goldberg
Arnold Genthe
Nickolas Muray
E. O. Hoppé
August Sander
Gertrude Käsebier

Gebonden uitgave met stofomslag.
Formaat 30 x 24 cm.
Uitgeverij Thames and Hudson, 1983, 203 pag.
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