Description
A huge and wonderful coffee-table book with some of the most interesting selections from Vogue magazine from 1893-1963, when some of the best writers and thinkers of the era contributed to the magazine. The book contains not only wonderful photographs, including of personalities such as Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Taylor and George Bernard Shaw, but also interesting articles. These include an essay, “The Crisis of Man” by Albert Camus, a short piece on Pierre Balmain by Gertrude Stein, the essays “Opera Addict” by W. H. Auden, “My Grandmother and Mr Gladstone” by Bertrand Russell, and “Brothers, I Presume” by (then) Senator JFK, and many more. Also of note are wonderful movie stills, illustrations, and works of artists such as Picasso.