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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

Description: Photographic portraits exhibit at the National Galleries of Scotland.

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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008: A history of faces (1399 words)
by - written on 02/11/08 (Very useful, 165 readings)
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I'm not the world's biggest fan of glossy magazines in general, and confess to never having even picked up a copy of Vanity Fair! However, when an exhibition opened in Edinburgh covering almost a century of portraits featured in the magazine's history, it felt time to let a bit of culture into my life! It was immediately obvious how many of VF's portrait shots have achieved a fame well beyond that of the magazine - the first (huge) picture as you go in is the famous shot of Princess Diana, taken by Mario Testino, for instance. However, I wasn't here to see copies of much-reproduced photos! There were several things to take from this show, in my opinion: how ... Read the complete review

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