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A smart guide to the world this month
Hemi
IO
ACentury of British
Vogue
photography
BritishVogue turns thebig1-0-0
thisyear, andLondon’sNational
Portrait Gallery is celebrating the iconicmagazine
withadecades-spanning retrospective, Vogue 100:
ACentury of Style,whichgathers280prints from
thepublication’svast archives. The figuresbehind
the camera (titans likeHelmutNewtonandHerb
Ritts) arealmost as legendaryas those in front of
it (fromCharlieChaplin toKateMoss). Andwhile
clothing is king in these shots,manyof theoutfits
compete for attentionwithwanderlust-inspiring
backdrops. Take, for instance, TimWalker’s shot of
amodel ridingayak inMongoliaorNorman
Parkinson’s sumptuous1956portrait ofmodel
AnneGunninganda tricked-out elephant inJaipur,
India (above). Helenof Troymayhave launcheda
thousand ships, but Gunningmight just launch
a thousand flight bookings.
—NICHOLASDERENZO
(FEB. 11)
