Classic Vanity Fair covers Pictures Angelina Jolie on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, in June 2005 (left, photographed by Annie Leibovitz), and October 2011 (photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, styled by Jessica Diehl). Launched by Conde Nast Publications in late 1913, Vanity Fair magazine became a trailblazer in the art of celebrity photography, publishing iconic images of figures from the movies, business, literature, politics and society circles. Editor Graydon Carter writes of America at the time of the Great War, when the magazine made its debut: "For the first time, the nation saw itself encircling the planet - not just as a Great Power (whose benefits and consequences were debated even then) but as an entrepreneurial powerhouse and cultural dynamo. And Americans had attitude: they were willing to build people up but also cut them down to size. They applied a sense of humor - broad, sophisticated, sly, rambunctious - to everything. This was the environment from which Vanity Fair sprang. The magazine continues that attitude 100 years after it began. Credit: Vanity Fair