Vanity Fair Artists

George Hoyningen Huene

Born in Germany in 1900, Baron George Hoyningen-Huene was a German noble who spent his childhood in Russia. Huene fled Russia after the revolution and landed in Paris where he began as an illustrator for Vogue. He soon switched to photography and became a major force behind the move from pictorialism to modernism in fashion photography.

Miguel Covarrubias

Born in Mexico in 1904, Miguel Covarrubias was a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. He is most remembered for the illustrations he drew for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Covarrubias’ linear style was very forward for it’s time and his work proved influential to generations of illustrators, notably Al Hirschfeld from The New Yorker.

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen was born in Belgium in 1879 but spent the greater part of his life in the United States, as well as a number prolonged stays in Paris.. Beginning in 1923, Steichen became chief photographer for Condé Nast, working for Vogue and Vanity Fair and is credited with helping to define the photographic style of Conde Nast magazines during his fifteen year career with the company.

Andre E Marty

Generally known as “Andre”, André Édouard Marty was born in Paris in 1882. André was an illustrator who normally worked in the Art Deco style and was in fact on the jury of the original Exposition internationale des Arts decoratifs et industries modernes in 1925, from which the Art Deco movement took its name.

Francis Bruguiere

Born in San Francisco, California in 1879, Francis Bruguiére pursued many art forms including painting, poetry and music before turning  his eye to photography after being introduced to Alfred Steiglitz and his Photo-Secession group. Bruguiére’s portraits for Vanity Fair in the 1920’s focused on actors, writers and dancers.

Nicholas Muray

Born in Hungary in 1892, Nicholas Muray was both a world class photographer and an Olympic level fencer. Muray’s portraits of entertainers and athletes in Vanity Fair during the 1920’s have become icons of the medium. Muray is also remembered for his passionate affair with the hugely influential Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo.

William Bolin

Born in Spain, the illustrator and photographer, William (Guillermo) Bolin, worked for Vogue and Vanity Fair in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His illustrations reflected the Art Deco style that was prevalent during that period and his photography reflected the shift from Pictorialism to Modernism.

Lusha Nelson

Born in the United States in 1900 and passing away in 1938, Lusha Nelson had a brief but  prolific career. After being taken under the wing of Conde Nast Chief Photographer, Edward Steichen, Nelson’s portrait work for Vanity Fair and fashion spreads for Vogue in the 1930’s were early and excellent examples of the modernist aesthetic taking over photography.