Legends of Hollywood (L-R: Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz) by Annie Leibovitz, 2001.

I went to the Vanity Fair’s Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery last Friday.

You can see there more than 150 portraits of people from the worlds of music, sport, fashion, business, literature politics, theatre, cinema, and the arts, like Claude Monet, Amelia Earhart, Jesse Owens, David Hockney, Arthur Miller, Madonna, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Demi Moore and Tom Cruise.

I had the opportunity to see portraits from photographers such as Baron De Meyer, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton by the Vanity Fair’s early period; and more contemporary photographs by Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts, since its re-launch in 1983.

The picture above is Legends of Hollywood (L-R: Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz) by Annie Leibovitz, 2001. It is one of my favorites.