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Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles on high-brow culture, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and current affairs. The editor-in-chief is E. Graydon Carter.Vanity Fair was originally founded as a British weekly magazine in 1868 by Thomas Gibson Bowles . Subtitled "A Weekly Show of Political, Social, and Literary Wares", it offered its Victorian- and Edwardian-era readership articles on current events and issues of the day, reviews of the theatre, new books, reports on social events, and the latest scandals, together with serialized fiction , word games, and other trivia. However the magazine was perhaps best known for its caricatures. More than two thousand of these caricatures appeared of subjects that included artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, soldiers and scholars.
Produced by an international group of artists, the illustrations are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine and form a pictorial record of the period. Among the artists who contributed illustrations were Max Beerbohm, Sir Leslie Ward (who signed his work "Spy"), the Italian Carlo Pellegrini (known as "Ape"), the French artist James Jacques Tissot , and the American Thomas Nast. Another main issue is star photography by leading people photographers; among them well-known Annie Leibovitz.
After Bowles sold his interest in the magazine in 1889, it changed hands several times and was then merged with Hearth and Home , whereupon it lost its name.
Vanity Fair was revived in its current form in the 1980s by New York-based publisher group Condé NastConde Montrose Nast born March 26, 1873 in New York City, United States died there on September 19, 1942, was the founder of Conde Nast Publications a major American magazine publisher. While other publishers simply focused on increasing the number of mag. Under editors Tina BrownChristina Hambley Brown or Tina Brown, (born 1953) is a British-born American magazine editor and talk-show host. She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is best known for being the editor of Vanity Fair magazine (1984-1992), The New Yorker and (1984-1992) and E. Graydon Carter (1992-), the magazine enjoyed greater circulation and prestige.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild) ( August 22, 1893 June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. Born in West End, New Jersey, Parker first sold some poems t wrote theatre criticisms for them. Claire Boothe Luce was its editor for some time. In 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan, Marie Brenner wrote an exposéAn expos is an article or book intended to reveal shocking or surprising information. on the tobacco industryThe tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, most environm, entitled The Man Who Knew Too Much . This article was later converted to a movie, The Insider.
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