I went to the National Portrait this weekend to see the Vanity Fair exhibition. Overall all it was pretty good, I wasn't aware of how early editions of Vanity Fair were responsible for creating so many iconic images of famous people. I was also unaware of the long list of photographers that worked with the magazine to really define those iconic images, like Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritz.

This image of Mick Jagger, Madonna and Tony Curtis is fairly unique in the sense that it has a spontaneous feel to it whereas many of the other images are far more staged.

I particularly like the photograph of Margaret Thatcher, her power and enormous stature is captured brilliantly, so much so that I even felt a pang of nostalgia for the 'Iron Lady', and was reminded of the Brighton Conference speech, which feature the immortal line 'U-turn if you want to, this lady's not for turning".... then I remembered how much of a dictatorial warlord she was and moved swiftly on.... go along, but go during the week, it's far too busy at the weekend.