ePub Race; Gender; Sexuality; and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality by From Brand: SAGE Publications; Inc in History

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Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power; art and commerce; crisis and culture—both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913; through the Jazz Age and the Depression; to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years; to the image-saturated Information Age; Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded; using wit; imagination; peerless literary narrative; and bold; groundbreaking imagery from the greatest photographers; artists; and illustrators of the day. This sumptuous book takes a decade-by-decade look at the world as seen by the magazine; stopping to describe the incomparable editor Frank Crowninshield and the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair; the magazine’s controversial rebirth in 1983; and the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party. With its exhaustive sweep; visual impact; and time-capsule format; Vanity Fair 100 Years is the book everyone will want in 2013. Praise for Vanity Fair 100 Years: “The book is a stunning artifact that begets staring; less for the words and publishing industry than as an exercise in visual storytelling reflected through the prism of society and celebrity. The best photographers; the best designers; the best illustrators all came together over Vanity Fair’s contents; and the book unfolds in page after page of stunningly rendered images; some iconic and some that never even ran.” —New York Times Book Review