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Scottish exhibition to showcase the best of Vanity Fair photography.

1st June 2008

Some of the most famous faces to ever be captured on film will be on display in Scotland for the very first time in June in Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery. There are going to be a number of these striking images, and more at the Vanity Fair Portraits exhibition.

Vanity Fair is famed for its lavish, and sometimes controversial covers and the full-page portraits of celebrities, indeed many of these have gone on to become iconic images in popular culture.

One of the most famous of these was its front cover adnorend by the naked and pregnant Demi Moore (back in 1991), this being the first time an actress had ever posed nude while pregnant. More recently, the magazine was responsible for a storm of protest when it featured 15-year-old Hannah Montana topless and wrapped in a bed sheet.

The exhibition, which launches on June 14, will for the first time see photographs from Vanity Fair's Vintage Period displayed alongside images used since its relaunch in the 1980s.

Vanity Fair Portraits (Photographs 1913-2008) is a collaboration between Vanity Fair and the National Portrait Gallery, London, and runs at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, until September 21. Entry to the exhibition is £6 and £4. There is also a tour of the exhibition with artist and lecturer Luke Watson on June 14.

For more details, please visit

www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition

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