Friday, November 27, 2009

"A Little Brit Different": Tim Walker for Vanity Fair

These portraits by Tim Walker accompanied the 2007 Vanity Fair article "England Made Them," by Christopher Hitchens, another notable English eccentric (polemicist, curmudgeon, and journalist)


Otis Ferry, master of the hounds for the village of Eaton Mascott


Artist Peter Armstrong in his London apartment, which he wallpapered in newspaper and magazine clippings


Patrick Wolf, singer-songwriter, with dancers of Ballet West, in the Stag Ballroom of the Mar Lodge Estate, Braemar, Scotland


Vivienne Westwood in the old Camden Palace in London


Three Guinness heirs, Tom Guinness, Jasmine Guinness, and Violet Ogden, seated at their ancestral home, Leixlip Castle in County Kildare, Ireland, with family friends and neighbors Georgina O'Hagan and Poppy Lloyd


Lady Isabella Cawdor with her children at Carnoch, Invernesshire, in the Scottish Highlands


Artist, model, and former trapezist Iris Palmer at Mill Hill Farm in Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire


Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and author The Cloudspotter's Guide, on a roof in Bloomsbury


Guinness heir Garech Brown at the family estate Luggala, County Wicklow, Ireland


The Marquis of Bath at his estate in Longleat, Wiltshire


Charlie the Penguin amongst portraits of the Marquis of Bath


Stella Tennant pays homage to her great-uncle Stephen Tennant


Actor John Hurt


Members of the Liverpool band Clinic, who never reveal their faces


Artist Grayson Perry, who accepted his 2003 Turner Prize in a crinoline dress

Homage to Bansky, the political graffiti artist whose face and identity are unknown

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