From 10/26/08 – March 1, 2009, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present portraits from the archives of Vanity Fair Magazine – 150 of the world’s most famous faces past and present.
Pictures of the most influential from sports, music, art, dance, and politics, have been culled from hundreds of images from 1913 to now. These photos give us an historic view of who was considered in/out over the years.
Vanity Fair’s favorite photographers represented here include “James Abbe, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, George Hoyningen-Huene, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Lord Snowdon, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.“
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(Image: Actress Gloria Swanson, “A Much Screened Lady”, by Edward Steichen, 1924)