VANITY FAIR 100 YEARS

By Graydon Carter

Beginning with the magazine’s inception in 1913, Vanity Fair 100 Years spans the century long history of the magazine, working through each decade from the Jazz age, the Depression, the Reagan presidency and Our Age, currently defined the circulation of visual imagery like never before via social media.

The book includes works from some of the boldest and most successful photographers, artists, illustrators, and editors of our time. The retrospective book also, of course, includes a comprehensive history of the magazine’s famous Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

“The book is a stunning artifact that begets staring, less for the words and publishing industry than as an exercise in visual storytelling reflected through the prism of society and celebrity. The best photographers, the best designers, the best illustrators all came together over Vanity Fair’s contents, and the book unfolds in page after page of stunningly rendered images, some iconic and some that never even ran.” New York Times Book Review