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53-475: The film is composed primarily of footage shot by photojournalist Tim Hetherington and journalist Sebastian Junger in 2007 and 2008 during approximately 10 months spent with Second Platoon, Battle Company, 2nd Battalion , 503rd Infantry Regiment , 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army at Outpost (OP) Restrepo in Afghanistan 's Korengal Valley , along with interviews recorded with some of

106-1122: A mortar shell or an RPG fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war . Born in Birkenhead to Judith ( née  Gillett ) and Alistair Hetherington, Tim Hetherington was raised in Southport , where he attended St Patrick's Catholic Primary School. Later he attended Stonyhurst College and read Classics and English at Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford in 1989. Shortly after graduation he received £5,000 from his grandmother's will, which enabled him to travel for two years in India, China and Tibet. That trip made him realise he "wanted to make images", so he "worked for three to four years, going to night school in photography before eventually going back to college." He then studied photojournalism under Daniel Meadows and Colin Jacobson in Cardiff in 1996. Hetherington's first job

159-467: A "representation of how people are consuming more voraciously than ever". In 2017 former editor Tina Brown published "The Vanity Fair Diaries". It was announced in November 2017 that Radhika Jones , editorial director of The New York Times books section, would succeed Carter as Editor-in-Chief on December 11, 2017. In 2018, Vanity Fair received accolades for removing actor James Franco from

212-399: A cover shoot following sexual harassment allegations. In 2020, Dario Calmese became the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of a Vanity Fair issue; his subject was Viola Davis . Vanity Fair employees unionized in 2022. In 1991 Vanity Fair began publishing an international edition. There are currently five international editions of Vanity Fair being published: namely in

265-462: A grenade to save the other members of his unit. Many of the soldiers miss the camaraderie of the other men, the adrenaline of war, and the excitement of "cheating death." One soldier says he would "go back right now if I could", while another worries that God hates him for the "sins" he committed on his deployment. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 38 reviews, with an average score of 6.4/10;

318-505: A photographer on the films Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004) and The Devil Came on Horseback (2007). In 2006, Hetherington took a break from image-making to work as an investigator for the United Nations Security Council 's Liberia Sanctions Committee. Hetherington made several trips to Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008 with writer Sebastian Junger , on assignment for Vanity Fair . They were embedded with

371-464: A single U.S. Army platoon (Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment , 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team ) serving at a remote outpost in the Korengal Valley . They filmed the 2010 documentary film Restrepo there, and Afghanistan – The Other War , which was broadcast on ABC News 's Nightline programme. Hetherington's book Infidel is based on

424-484: A statement of apology on April 27: "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about." Nearly ten years later to the day, Cyrus took back the Disney apology statement in an Instagram story showing a New York Post front page regarding

477-482: A worthy companion piece to Restrepo with this more reflective dispatch from the front lines of Afghanistan." David Denby of The New Yorker said: "As a record of the war, the two films [ Restrepo and Korengal ] are imperishable." A few critics found Korengal meandering. Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine , for example, called the film "an alternately gripping and dully meandering patchwork of these soldiers' simultaneously chill and quite literally maddening stay in

530-551: A young model as he was traveling to the funeral of his wife, Sharon Tate , in August 1969, claiming that he could make her "the next Sharon Tate". The court permitted Polanski to testify via a video link, after he expressed fears that he might be extradited were he to enter the United Kingdom. The trial began on July 18, 2005, and Polanski made English legal history as the first claimant to give evidence by video link. During

583-501: Is "to preserve the legacy of Tim's professional life as a visual storyteller and human rights advocate" including "the support and nurture of new work that continues the ideals demonstrated by Tim with special emphasis on humanitarian and social concerns". The Tim Hetherington Photobook Library is a library of roughly 1200 photography books at the Bronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, New York. It

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636-474: Is stocked with donated books—Hetherington's parents donated his collection, whilst Aperture Foundation , Radius Books , Eugene Richards and Peter van Agtmael have also donated. Vanity Fair (magazine) Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture , fashion , and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States. The first version of Vanity Fair

689-424: Is that combat is a lot of things. It is not just one thing. It is very exciting for everybody. It is very scary for everybody. It is incredibly meaningful. It is very, very sad if you stop and think about what you are doing." Whereas Restrepo showed the "high" of combat, Korengal has been said to express more bitterness. Text displayed at the start of the film reads: "In April 2010, the U.S. military pulled out of

742-473: The First Libyan Civil War , so Junger made Korengal as the sole director. Whereas Restrepo had been intended to make the viewer feel what it was like to be in combat, Junger's aim with Korengal was to delve deeper into the experience and emotions of those in combat and deconstruct what war does to the individual soldier. He said: "One of the things I wanted to communicate with this film

795-690: The French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. following the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. In 2005, Vanity Fair was found liable in a lawsuit brought in the UK by film director Roman Polanski , who claimed the magazine had libelled him in an article by A. E. Hotchner published in 2002. The article recounted a claim by Lewis H. Lapham , editor of Harper's , that Polanski had made sexual advances towards

848-766: The United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003, ISSN 1723-6673), Spain (since 2008), France (since 2013), and Mexico (since 2015), with the Italian version published weekly. The Italian Vanity Fair was established in October 2003 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013. Vanity Fair Germany launched in February 2007 at a cost of € 50 million (euros), then the most expensive new magazine in Germany in years and Condé Nast's biggest investment outside

901-520: The Vanity Fair images are simply a product of bright set lighting, rather than deliberate skin lightening. Nyong'o was pleased with the work and saw no harm done to herself; she did not hold Vanity Fair or the photographer liable. Shortly before the Nyong'o case, Vogue magazine, a partner and buyer of Vanity Fair in 1936, was accused of altering actress Lena Dunham 's photos. Dunham considered

954-582: The Afghan war was going out of control. When I got to the Korangal Valley , and there was lots of fighting going on, it completely surprised me. I was gobsmacked. At the end of October 2007, 70 percent of American bombs being dropped were in that valley, and the casualty rate was at 25 percent wounded. So the images I made were very action oriented. Photojournalism. Reminiscent of classical war photography. I did that because I wanted people to see that there

1007-556: The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (2013), backed by HBO Films , is a tribute to Hetherington. Hetherington's estate was represented by Magnum Photos . He was preparing to apply to the photo agency before he died. His estate is now represented by Imperial War Museums . The Tim Hetherington Trust was set up in 2012 by Hetherington's parents Judith and Alistair, with Stephen Mayes its executive director. Its website states its mission

1060-566: The Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. 42 Americans died fighting there." Archival news footage is then shown of the demolition of Outpost (OP) Restrepo by American troops before their withdrawal from the valley. The rest of the film takes place between 2007 and 2008, when the men of Second Platoon, Battle Company, were stationed in the Korengal Valley and both constructed and spent much of their time defending OP Restrepo, named after their fallen comrade PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo . Footage of

1113-471: The Korengal that pointedly shuns big-picture philosophizing." Tim Hetherington Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British photojournalist. He produced books, films and other work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads" and was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair . He

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1166-515: The Libyan city of Ajdabiya renamed its largest square after him. Anti-Gaddafi protesters also held a march to the newly renamed Tim Hetherington Square in his honour. "We have named the square after this hero and I now consider Tim as one of our martyrs," Al Jazeera quoted a Libyan surgeon in the city as saying. Senator John McCain sent two American flags to a memorial service in New York: one

1219-891: The March 1936 issue. Vanity Fair celebrates its 95th anniversary in 2008, as well as its 25th anniversary as a relaunched publication. The National Portrait Gallery in London has mounted an exhibition called "Vanity Fair Portraits, 1913–2008", which traveled to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia, to celebrate

1272-586: The United States. After circulation had plummeted from half a million to less than 200,000 per week, the German edition was shut down in 2009. As a successor to a similar invitation-only event annually held by the late agent Irving Paul Lazar , the first Vanity Fair Oscar Party took place in 1994. During its first years, the magazine's Oscar party was co-hosted by producer Steve Tisch at Morton's in West Hollywood . At first, editor Graydon Carter kept

1325-493: The account of the service. Hetherington was in a romantic relationship with Idil Ibrahim before he was killed during the Libyan Civil War. The Tim Hetherington Grant is awarded annually by World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch to a photographer who has participated in a recent World Press Photo Contest in order to finalise a project on a human rights theme. Sebastian Junger's documentary film Which Way Is

1378-468: The besieged city of Misrata , Libya , during the 2011 Libyan civil war. There appeared to be uncertainty whether he was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell or an RPG round. One report said "several Libyan rebels" were killed in the blast, and at least two other journalists survived. The same attack killed photographer Chris Hondros , gravely wounded photographer Guy Martin, and wounded photographer Michael Christopher Brown . A source said that

1431-459: The film producer Judd Apatow , and actors Don Cheadle and Bryce Dallas Howard . Vanity Fair launched The Hive in June 2016, its online business, politics and technology news vertical. In January 2017, Vanity Fair' s Hive and Condé Nast Entertainment partnered with Cheddar online TV channel to create a live weekly series called VF Hive on Cheddar . Editor Graydon Carter called the series

1484-617: The group was travelling with rebel fighters. Hetherington had tweeted the previous day, In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO . Hetherington survived the initial incident and was loaded into a van alive, but died due to excessive blood loss. Hetherington was buried in Brompton Cemetery , London, survived by his partner, parents, sister, brother, and several nieces and nephews. Just days after his death in Misrata,

1537-499: The invitation list small, at around 120 for dinner. In 2008, in sympathy with a Writers Guild of America strike , Vanity Fair canceled its annual party. Between 2009 and 2013, the party was held at Sunset Tower . The 2014 edition took place in a temporary, 12,000-square-foot glass-walled structure at 8680 Sunset Boulevard. Vanity Fair makes a limited number of invitations available each year for charity. In recent years, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg have hosted an after-party at

1590-491: The magazine also prints articles on a variety of topics. In 1996, journalist Marie Brenner wrote an exposé on the tobacco industry titled "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The article was later adapted into a movie The Insider (1999), which starred Al Pacino and Russell Crowe . Most famously, after more than thirty years of mystery, an article in the May 2005 edition revealed the identity of Deep Throat ( W. Mark Felt ), one of

1643-448: The magazine include Bruce Weber , Annie Leibovitz , Mario Testino and Herb Ritts , who have all provided the magazine with a string of lavish covers and full-page portraits of current celebrities . Amongst the most famous of these was the August 1991 Leibovitz cover featuring a naked, pregnant Demi Moore , an image entitled More Demi Moore that to this day holds a spot in pop culture. In addition to its controversial photography,

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1696-409: The magazine's photographic heritage. Vanity Fair: The Portraits, a special jubilee issue and hardback book, was published in the fall of 2008. Vanity Fair is a fictitious place ruled by Beelzebub in the book Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan . Later use of the name was influenced by the well-known 1847–48 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray . Condé Nast Publications, under

1749-464: The men in combat is intermixed with interviews conducted with them afterward, in which most of them express that they had experienced both the most intense fear and the most intense exhilaration of their lives in combat, with stretches of extreme boredom between the spurts of action. All of the soldiers describe bonds with those who served beside them that go beyond the intensity of even their family ties, and one soldier says he would gladly throw himself on

1802-556: The men's fashion magazine Dress in 1913. He renamed the magazine Dress and Vanity Fair and published four issues in 1913. It continued to thrive into the 1920s. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues. Nonetheless, its circulation at 90,000 copies was at its peak. Condé Nast announced in December 1935 that Vanity Fair would be folded into Vogue (circulation 156,000) as of

1855-561: The modified photos to be offensive. In 2015, Vanity Fair had to update the account it had published by the NBC News correspondent Richard Engel about the disputed circumstances of his 2012 kidnapping in Syria , stating that he had misidentified his captors. In 2019, former contributing editor Vicky Ward said her 2003 profile of Jeffrey Epstein in Vanity Fair had included on-the-record accounts of Annie and Maria Farmer (who filed

1908-631: The ownership of S.I. Newhouse , announced in June 1981 that it was reviving the magazine. The first issue was released in February 1983 (cover date March), edited by Richard Locke , formerly of The New York Times Book Review . After three issues, Locke was replaced by Leo Lerman , veteran features editor of Vogue . He was followed by editors Tina Brown (1984–1992), Graydon Carter (1992–2017) and Radhika Jones (2017 to present). Regular writers and columnists have included Dominick Dunne , Sebastian Junger , Michael Wolff , Maureen Orth and Christopher Hitchens . Famous contributing photographers for

1961-525: The pictorials in Vanity Fair have attracted criticism. The April 1999 issue featured an image of actor Mike Myers dressed as a Hindu deity for a photo spread by David LaChapelle : after criticism, both the photographer and the magazine apologized. The magazine was the subject of Toby Young 's book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , about his search for success in New York City while working for Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair . The book

2014-430: The pictures left an impression that she was bare-breasted, Cyrus was wrapped in a bedsheet and was actually not topless. Some parents expressed outrage at the nature of the photograph, which a Disney spokesperson described as "a situation [that] was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old to sell magazines". In response to the internet circulation of the photo and ensuing media attention, Miley Cyrus released

2067-429: The same platoon. He also created a unique video installation called Sleeping Soldiers , first shown at the 2009 New York Photo Festival. In 2010 he directed the short film Diary : Diary is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It's a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to

2120-475: The seemingly distant worlds we see in the media. In a June 2010 interview for The New York Times , when asked by photojournalist Michael Kamber about Infidel , the book he did with Chris Boot that was about to be published, Hetherington commented on the level of danger he encountered when working on it: The first time I went to Afghanistan, in 2007, the world was very much focused on Iraq. People had forgotten – and now we have come to accept – that

2173-537: The soldiers after Second Platoon returned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team's base near Vicenza , Italy. Heatherington and Junger had already assembled the Academy Award-nominated 2010 documentary Restrepo from the same material, but after that film was completed there was still a considerable amount of footage left unused. Hetherington was killed by shrapnel in April 2011 while reporting on

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2226-578: The sources for The Washington Post articles on Watergate , which led to the 1974 resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon . The magazine also features candid interviews with celebrities, including a monthly Proust Questionnaire . Other notable interviews have included: Teri Hatcher , who revealed in the magazine that she was sexually abused as a child; Jennifer Aniston 's first interview after her divorce from Brad Pitt ; Anderson Cooper , who talked about his brother's death; and Martha Stewart 's first interview after her release from prison. Some of

2279-432: The story, simply stating "IM NOT SORRY Fuck YOU #10YearsAgo". In January 2014, Vanity Fair was under fire for allegedly altering the appearance of a celebrity featured in its pages for its February issue, Lupita Nyong'o , an actress known for her role in 12 Years A Slave . In Nyong'o's case, the magazine tweeted the photo and it began with fans accusing the company of altering her complexion. However, some believe that

2332-548: The televised entertainment program Entertainment Tonight reported that 15-year-old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair . The photo, and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photos, show Cyrus without a top, her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bedsheet. The photo shoot was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz . The full photograph was published with an accompanying story on The New York Times website on April 27, 2008. On April 29, 2008, The New York Times clarified that though

2385-461: The trial, which included the testimonies of Mia Farrow and others, it was proved that the alleged scene at the famous New York restaurant Elaine's could not possibly have taken place on the date given, because Polanski only dined at this restaurant three weeks later. Also, the Norwegian then-model disputed the accounts that he had claimed to be able to make her "the next Sharon Tate". Polanski

2438-478: The website's "critics consensus" reads: " Korengal finds documentarian Sebastian Junger taking another clear-eyed -- and poignantly thought-provoking -- look at the human cost of modern warfare." On Metacritic , it has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In his review of the film, Justin Chang of Variety wrote that "Sebastian Junger delivers

2491-416: Was a lot of fighting going on. Anyway, I go back and the fighting sort of bored me. Because when you are in a lot of combat after a while, a lot of it – you know? If you are inside a base that's being attacked, like Restrepo was, you are in a fairly good position. The likelihood of you being killed was pretty low, unless they put a mortar on you. Hetherington was killed while covering the front lines in

2544-590: Was awarded damages by the High Court in London. The case was notable because Polanski was living in France as a fugitive from U.S. justice, and never appeared in the London court for fear he would be extradited to the U.S. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair , responded, "I find it amazing that a man who lives in France can sue a magazine that is published in America in a British courtroom." On April 25, 2008,

2597-521: Was best known for the documentary film Restrepo (2010), which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger . Restrepo won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011. Hetherington won various awards including the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year . He was killed by shrapnel from either

2650-539: Was given to the Hetherington family; the other was presented to filmmaker Idil Ibrahim , Hetherington's life partner and co-worker at Zeila Films, where he had served as head cinematographer / director of photography. The flags were delivered at the service by four American veterans of Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne in Afghanistan, who had been "many times ... under fire with Tim" and Junger, who wrote

2703-653: Was made into a movie in 2008, with Jeff Bridges playing Carter. In 2013, Condé Nast Entertainment struck a deal with Discovery Communications -owned cable channel Investigation Discovery for Vanity Fair Confidential , a crime and mystery documentary TV series based on stories from Vanity Fair magazine. Condé Nast Entertainment launched a Vanity Fair YouTube channel in July 2013. In anticipation of its 100th anniversary that year, Vanity Fair co-produced 10 short films, one to celebrate each decade, from well-known documentary filmmakers like Barbara Kopple and including

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2756-467: Was published from 1913 to 1936. The imprint was revived in 1983 after Conde Nast took over the magazine company. Vanity Fair currently includes five international editions of the magazine. The five international editions of the magazine are the United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003), Spain (since 2008), France (since 2013), and Mexico (since 2015). As of 2018, the editor-in-chief is Radhika Jones . Condé Montrose Nast began his empire by purchasing

2809-671: Was that of a trainee at The Big Issue , in London . He was their sole staff photographer, photographing homeless shelters, demonstrations, dockers' strikes, boxing gyms, celebrities, etc. He was not fond of his celebrity assignments, wanting to focus on what he believed to be more serious stories. He spent much of the next decade in West Africa , documenting political upheaval and its effects on daily life in Liberia , Sierra Leone , Nigeria , and other countries. Hetherington worked as

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