TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC)
at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Vanity Fair Portraits:
Photographs 1913-2008 from September 26, 2009 to January 3, 2010. The
exhibition, which garnered record-breaking attendance in its recent
European engagements, showcases 150 portraits, including
classic images from Vanity Fair’s early period and photographs featured in
the magazine since its 1983 relaunch. A collaboration between
Vanity Fair and the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition is
curated by Terence Pepper, Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait
Gallery, and David Friend, Vanity Fair’s Editor of Creative Development.
Vanity Fair Portraits is presented by the Bay and will be displayed in the
Roloff Beny Gallery on Level 4 of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal.
The ROM will be the only Canadian venue to display Vanity Fair
Portraits, and this will be its first showing in eastern North America.