Vanity Fair 100 Years

From the Jazz Age to Our Age

Graydon Carter

• Publisher: ABRAMS Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781419708633
• eBook ISBN: 9781613125700
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Photography

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture—both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded, using wit, imagination, peerless literary narrative, and bold, groundbreaking imagery from the greatest photographers, artists, and illustrators of the day. This sumptuous book takes a decade-by-decade look at the world as seen by the magazine, stopping to describe the incomparable editor Frank Crowninshield and the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair, the magazine's controversial rebirth in 1983, and the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Table of contents

• Front Jacket
• Front Flap
• Endpaper 1
• Endpaper 2
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Last Gentleman: The Frank Crowninshield Era
• The 1910s
• Steichen’s Modern Eye
• The 1920s
• Impossible Interviews
• The 1930S
• Wisdom And Whimsy, 1913–1936 And 1983–2013
• Picture Credits
• Vanity Fair, The Rebirth
• Vanity Fair, In The Beginning
• The 1980s
• Iconographer Of Our Time
• The 1990s
• The Proust Questionnaire
• Some Enchanted Evening
• The 2000s
• Index
• Keys To Illustrations
• Endpaper 3
• Endpaper 4
• Back Flap
• Back Jacket