The Forbidden Pictures: 07/19/01 Tapa blanda - 2004

Larry Fink, the acclaimed photojournalist and educator, was born in Brooklyn in 1941 and studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch and Lisette Model at the New School for Social Research in New York. Currently a professor at Bard College, he has taught photography at Yale, Parsons School of Design, and New York University. He is represented by Bill Charles Inc. Fink has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as well as major retrospectives at Les Rencontres de Photographie, Aries, France; Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, Vanity Fiar, Vogue, Time-Life Books, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. The author of Boxing, Runway, and Social Graces (powerHouse Books, 1997, 2000, and 2001, respectively), Fink lives on a farm in Martin's Creek, Pennsylvania.

Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since July 1992. During his tenure, Vanity Fair has won six National Magazine Awards, including two for general excellence for magazines with a circulation of more than one million, the highest honor in magazine publishing. Carter has been named Advertising Age's editor of the year and is the first editor ever to be twice named Adweek magazine's editor of the year. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, he worked as editor at The New York Observer and Spy, which Carter cofounded in 1986. He has also worked as a staff writer for Time and Life magazines. He is the author of What We've Lost (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004) and the editor of Oscar Night (Knopf, 2004) and Vanity Fair's Hollywood (Abrams, 2000). Carter was an executive producer of 9/11, the highly acclaimed film that aired on CBS in 2002, for which he received an Emmy and a Peabody Award. Born in Toronto, Canada, Mr. Carter resides in Manhattan.