Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
Christopher Chapman examines the battle of glamour vs. grunge which played out in the fashion and advertising of the 1990s.
Vanity Fair Portraits traces the birth and evolution of photographic portraiture through the archives of Vanity Fair magazine.
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with the assistance of Alan Dodge AM 2009
Bruce Weber, born 1946, is an internationally renowned American fashion photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
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