
Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality & power art & commerce crisis & culture--both highbrow & low In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day From its inception in 1913 through the Jazz Age & the Depression to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years (after a 47-year hiatus) to the image-saturated Information Age Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded--using wit imagination peerless literary narrative & bold groundbreaking imagery The most innovative voices in popular culture are all compiled within these pages (from Robert Benchley Jacques Cocteau & Dorothy Parker to William Styron Christopher Hitchens & Dominick Dunne) along with the greatest magazine illustrators artists & photographers of all time--most notably Edward Steichen & Annie Leibovitz who through Vanity Fair virtually invented the modern celebrity portrait Writers Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger contribute an essay on the incomparable Frank Crowninshield & the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair Jim Windolf chronicles the magazine's rebirth in 1983 & Frank Di Giacomo gives the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party