Vogue on Location: People, Places, Portraits

I bought a slightly used version, and it was in great shape with no noticeable markings, scratches, or tears. The content is GORGEOUS... What a lovely compilation of photographic and art history to have... beautiful images spanning old vintage shots to current vivid phootshoots... Super happy.

Perfect!

Having been enthralled for decades by Vogue's lavish editorial photographic fashion spreads, I looked forward to a book which would gather the best of them in one dreamy volume. This book is sometimes that book, with elegantly-designed sections including intelligent commentary by those in the know. With quotations from Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Kennedy Fraser alone, one is provided with great virtual travelling companions. This book is sometimes that yearned-for book, by including ever-memorable fashion photographs by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Norman Parkinson, Annie Leibovitz. The top models of decades grace these pages (superbly, Veruschka in brocade and furs at a snow- covered shrine in Northern Japan in 1966.) While some breathtaking fashion panoramas are spread across two pages with great effect, its too bad that some put a model right in the center, distorting the image.) When is this not the book for which I yearned? When it largely fails to give credit to the great designers of the stunning garments shown, and does not include an index in the back for looking them up, or showing which issue of Vogue an image came from (when a fashion historian travels, she wants images backed up with a little scholarship for her research). Even so, this volume will assuredly grow on me, because it takes the viewer/reader/time-traveler to so many divine moments and locations on the globe to which we can only dream of traveling in 2020. Deep thanks to the historic and creative community from Vogue's past and present, who packed so much style and beauty into this volume.

VOGUE continues to disappoint. Seems like the books are now just attempted profit centers and really miss the excitement and dynamism of the moments they are trying to recapture. The editors are to blame for the rather boring selection of material. With all the incredible photos at their fingertips, it's a lackluster assemblage. Diana Vreeland should've been revived to do the book.Save your money.