Vanity Fair Portraits
Location National Portrait Gallery
Time 14 February 2008 to 26 May 2008

Vanity Fair has published some of the most iconic images of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Now the National Portrait Gallery curators have been given access to the Vanity Fair archives and pulled together a selection of 150 classic images.

The exhibition features vintage prints from the magazine's first period (1913-1936) – on display for the first time. These are combined with more popular and contemporary images from its second period (1983-present). Vanity Fair's Period Portraits

Vanity Fair has become famous for its portrait photography.

Legendary photographers like Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton took glamorous portraits of Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson in the period 1913-1936, and these are on display at the National Portrait Gallery this spring.

Two unseen portraits of author Virginia Woolf taken in 1924 are an added treat in this part of the exhibition.