November 15, 2008

At this year’s Lucie Awards for photography, Terence Pepper and I were named Curators of the Year for “Vanity Fair Portraits: 1913-2008.” The show, also named Exhibition of the Year at the ceremony, is on view through March 1, 2009, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Terence is the curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

As an added bonus, the show’s catalogue won first place in the exhibitions/catalogues category at the British Book Design and Productions Awards.

Hats off to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who conceived and oversaw the enterprise; Sandy Naire, director of the NPG; Burberry (sponsor of the exhibition's London and L.A. legs); Terence Pepper; the catalogue's designer, Mimi Park; publisher, Celia Joicey; production chief, Martha Hurley; picture editors Betsy Horan and Dana Kravis - and to the scores of photographers whose work is represented on the walls.

Detail above: Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen, 1924 (c) Conde Nast Publications, Inc./Courtesy George Eastman House