LACMA to Exhibit Vanity Fair Portraits

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Nickolas Muray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Joan Crawford, Santa Monica, 1929, Vanity Fair, October 1929, © Condé Nast Publications Inc./Courtesy Condé Nast Archive.

Starting on October 26 the Los Angeles County Museum will open it’s Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 exhibit. The exhibition will showcase “portraits from the magazine’s early period (1913-1936) displayed in conjunction with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983–present)”. You can see work by Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian  Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven  Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce  Webe.

Don’t miss it, this will be the only US stop on it’s international tour!

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