The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays, and caricatures depicting a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth, and mystery-directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today.
On the motion-picture front, no other publication of our age has achieved the stature, vitality, or magic of Vanity Fair. In its coverage of the film industry, the magazine prides itself on assigning the world's top photographers, writers, and illustrators to explore the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament. Now, for the first time, the most memorable renderings of this illustrious pantheon have been assembled in one volume: Garbo and Swanson, Fairbanks and Pickford, Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Taylor and Burton-along with today's cinematic giants, including Cruise and Kidman, Nicholson and Streep, De...
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The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays, and caricatures depicting a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth, and mystery-directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today.
On the motion-picture front, no other publication of our age has achieved the stature, vitality, or magic of Vanity Fair. In its coverage of the film industry, the magazine prides itself on assigning the world's top photographers, writers, and illustrators to explore the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament. Now, for the first time, the most memorable renderings of this illustrious pantheon have been assembled in one volume: Garbo and Swanson, Fairbanks and Pickford, Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Taylor and Burton-along with today's cinematic giants, including Cruise and Kidman, Nicholson and Streep, De Niro and DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, and scores more.
As this sweeping, lavish book makes clear, Vanity Fair's stable of photographers (Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber, and many others represented here) have helped define modern portraiture. "Getting your own photo shoot in Vanity Fair," said Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, "has become the premier achievement in our celebrity-mad culture." Likewise, Vanity Fair's Hollywood includes Vanity Fair contributors of the past (D.H. Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Parker, Carl Sandburg, Walter Winchell and P.G. Wodehouse) and of the present.
Here, then, is a century's worth of stars and moguls, parties andscandals, power and glamour, through the unrivaled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.Vanity Fair: recently named the best million-plus circulation magazine of the year, is the acknowledged authority on Hollywood, celebrity, and entertainment. Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair. David Friend, Vanity Fair's editor of creative development, was the director of photography of Life magazine. Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor and a columnist for The Nation. His most recent books are The Missionary Position and No One Left to Lie To.
