Arts Fair

Vanity Fair

November 1986
Arts Fair
Vanity Fair
November 1986

Vanity Fair

Alfred Eisenstaedt's Life photos of the forties and fifties helped to usher in a new age of gossip, one conveyed by the intimate celebrity shot. Soon, reading about the rich and famous would never again be enough. Above, a 1949 portrait of Hedda Hopper, from the first major retrospective of the eighty-eight-year-old photographer's work, opening this month at New York's International Center of Photography.