The Vanities: Hollywood Parties 2000-2009 [Hardcover]

Larry Fink (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2011

Vanity Fair's Oscar parties have become a legend of their own over the last decade. A summit of the greatest Hollywood stars, they are the ultimate melting pot of beauty, fame, glamour, and wealth. For ten years American photographer Larry Fink, famous for a keen, uniquely sensual documentary eye, has been the official interpretive Vanity Fair photographer of these events. His view of superstars and their entourages is in sharp contrast to everything we know and expect of official Hollywood. His look is clear and honestly searing; his flash light is married to the instant in devilishly expressive ways. His photographs capture the atmosphere of these meetings reminiscent of evenings at a royal court. With his sensual and intuitive eye, Larry Fink shows the celebrities of the glamorous movie world anxiously at leisure.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 138 pages
• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel; Bilingual edition (April 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3829605269
• ISBN-13: 978-3829605267
• Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 0.7 x 10.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,362,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Photography/Story Telling at its Finest September 9, 2011

By Walter L. Ritter III

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From "Social Graces" to "The Vanities". Twenty-seven years of book publications as well as signature photographs since the late '50's have thus far amounted to an enviable career of Larry Fink. We continue to enjoy the probing Fink touch of capturing unintentional moments in the lives of people unable to escape his 'eye' and hand-held flash. Who else but Larry Fink focuses on a woman's foot precariously balancing her shoe while revealing a huge hole in the heel of her stocking? A moment with 'Hef' only showing his well-starched formal shirt and bow tie while bearing in on the headless well-endowed trio of femininity at his table is an excellent example of Fink's subtle story telling. "The Vanities" is a fabulous compilation of a decade of high party life summed up by 'the spy'.