Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Vanity Fair Portraits: photographs 1913-2008, Scottish National Portrait Gallery This exhibition almost becomes a homage to Annie Leibovitz. This is no bad thing, but it shows how the Vanity Fair photographers – including Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Mario Testino – have played such an integral part in the magazine's history. There are some good photographs here.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
This exhibition almost becomes a homage to Annie Leibovitz. This is no bad thing, but it shows how the Vanity Fair photographers – including Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Mario Testino – have played such an integral part in the magazine's history.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Wolfsburg, Germany - In the 14 years since it was founded, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has regularly presented the medium of photography in exhibitions devoted to the work of individual artists. These have included Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Pietro Donzelli and Ed van der Elsken. To mark the 70th anniversary of the City of Wolfsburg, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is presenting...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
IT IS perhaps surprising that the willowy beauty, adored by photographers, lipstick advertisers and movie-makers, who cruised through five husbands in a career which makes today’s supermodel, Kate Moss, seem like a girl guide, should have studied calculus at university.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
IT WILL be a surprise to some to know that there is more to Snowdon than a womanising shutter-bug.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
Simple Financial Advice (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Cecil Beaton There are millions of blogs in the blogosphere and, unless your blogging about teaching your parrot advanced calculus, thousands in your niche. Right [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
LONDON - Comprising over 300 works by 19th - and 20th - century photographers, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography will present a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken in cities around the world. Including work by Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee,...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
HOME: A MEMOIR OF MY EARLY YEARS, By Julie Andrews, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 㾾.99
Beech Grove Studio (Free subscription) | 29/03/2008
Gloria Swanson By Edward Steichen If you are in London this weekend and are looking for some exciting exhibitions to go and visit and get you out of the cold and rain, I suggest the current show at the National Portrait Gallery .A fabulous collection of images showing 150 photographs featured in Vanity Fair Magazine from 1913-present day.Images by some of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth...
Cinnamon Brainstorm (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
Vanity Fair was launched in 1913 by Condé Nast, whose vision was to produce an insightful magazine reflecting the era’s vibrant culture Now 150 portraits of artistic, literary, sporting, fashion and high-society leading lights, photographed by legends from Cecil Beaton and Man Ray to Mario Testino and Annie Leibovitz,have been gleaned from its glossy pages to the walls of the National Portrait Gallery...
Kingdom Of Style (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Here is Victoria Beckham posing for the next edition of Vogue Styled in a hand painted Dolce and Gabanna tulle dress, she has been styled and posed to resemble portraits taken by society photographer Cecil Beaton. His stunning work still...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
VICTORIA Beckham is on the cover of Vogue magazine. The Mirror has a picture of this cover. The right half of Posh’s face is hidden behind her raised hand. The paper says she looks like Eliza Doolittle, as played on film by Audrey Hepburn. The actress is pictured in full face. The Sun shows a picture of Posh inside [...]
The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
She's spent her whole career being mocked for her 'Posh' soubriquet, but a new photoshoot with Victoria Beckham in Vogue magazine suggests that she's finally living up to her nickname. [...more]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Victoria Beckham has made it on to the cover of glossy fashion magazine Vogue.
