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IN PRAISE OF VANITY FAIR

 

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The photography in Vanity Fair is a visual feast, even that for the advertisements.

 

 

 

 

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HILARY SWANK In this image by photographer Norman Jean Roy, actress Hilary Swank—a two-time Academy Award winner for her roles in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby—appears as something of a Sun Goddess, her frame outlined by golden rays, her limbs etched almost hieroglyphically against the sand, sea, and sky, not unlike a Greek or Roman figure in bas-relief. The portrait is clearly posed but contains a hint of faux photojournalism owing to the vigor and propulsion of Swank’s sprint along a stretch of Malibu Beach. By Norman Jean Roy, 2004; Vanity Fair, March 2005; © Norman Jean Roy

 

 

 

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JULIANNE MOORE Though they revere her for four Academy Award–nominated roles (in Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven, and The Hours), Vanity Fair’s readers have a soft spot for one particular turn: Julianne Moore’s portrayal of the nude harem girl in Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s masterpiece La Grande Odalisque. Photographer Michael Thompson’s study ran in the magazine in 2000; Ingres’s original, from 1814, hangs in the Louvre. By Michael Thompson, 2000; Vanity Fair, April 2000; © Michael Thompson.

 

 

 

As well as art and fashion, VF provides perceptive political articles and photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

George W. Bush and his inner circle, photographed in the Cabinet Room of the White House in December 2001. From left: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, C.I.A. director George Tenet (seated), and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

FAREWELL TO ALL THAT

An Oral History of the Bush White House

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BILL CLINTON In the waning days of his presidency, Bill Clinton sat down with Vanity Fair to personally caption a selection of unpublished pictures taken by White House photographers. The diamond in the rough: this William Vasta shot of the commander in chief bicycling through the Old Executive Office Building during the taping of a video (later shown at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner) that satirized his idle hours as a lame duck. By William Vasta, 2000; Vanity Fair, December 2000; © William Vasta.

 

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The Chickasaw Plum  -  Volume VI - Number 1 - January 2009

 

 

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