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 and scandals, power and glamour, through the unrivaled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.
Praise for Vanity Fair's Hollywood: Cameron Crowe: "A completely stunning tour of Hollywood's past and present."
Tom Cruise: "This book is a dynamic reflection of the period and its personalities through the eyes of some great photographers."
Barry Diller: "Every page tops the one before . . . You want it to never end. Vanity Fair's evocation of Hollywood is dazzling."
Sue Mengers: "A magnificent keeper. Stunning photos of everyone I've ever wanted to know."
Martin Scorsese: "Vanity Fair's Hollywood recreates this powerful sensation. Its striking, beautiful photographs-of the icons of the studios' golden age...."
Steven Spielberg: "Here is a remarkable gallery of personal moments and uninhibited vanities captured forever...."
Gore Vidal: "Like a pair of splendid Art Deco bookends...now brought together in a single volume...a kaleidoscope of startling images and urgent voices...."
Lew And Edie Wasserman: "Vanity Fair's Hollywood brings back some wonderful memories and captures the glamour and excitement of the entertainment community."
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 and scandals, power and glamour, through the unrivaled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.
Praise for Vanity Fair's Hollywood: Cameron Crowe: "A completely stunning tour of Hollywood's past and present."
Tom Cruise: "This book is a dynamic reflection of the period and its personalities through the eyes of some great photographers."
Barry Diller: "Every page tops the one before . . . You want it to never end. Vanity Fair's evocation of Hollywood is dazzling."
Sue Mengers: "A magnificent keeper. Stunning photos of everyone I've ever wanted to know."
Martin Scorsese: "Vanity Fair's Hollywood recreates this powerful sensation. Its striking, beautiful photographs-of the icons of the studios' golden age...."
Steven Spielberg: "Here is a remarkable gallery of personal moments and uninhibited vanities captured forever...."
Gore Vidal: "Like a pair of splendid Art Deco bookends...now brought together in a single volume...a kaleidoscope of startling images and urgent voices...."
Lew And Edie Wasserman: "Vanity Fair's Hollywood brings back some wonderful memories and captures the glamour and excitement of the entertainment community."
