Vanity Fair Portraits brings together almost 150 iconic photographs from the magazine’s vintage and modern period. Both fans of photography and celebrity buffs will enjoy a glamorous history of portraiture that feature such luminaries as Tom Cruise, Madonna, Ernest Hemingway and Cary Grant along works by master photographers that include Edward Steichen and today’s Annie Leibovitz. Radio Out and Out met with Francisco Alvarez, Managing Director of the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum who provided insight into both the exhibit and the magazine’s role in popular culture. Vanity Fair Portraits is at the Royal Ontario Museum until January 3, 2010.

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