Two, high-end magazine photo shows coming to Toronto this fall

Lovers of high-end magazine photography are in for a treat this fall as two major shows are debuting in Toronto, according to a story on CBC.ca.

• The Art Gallery of Ontario is featuring Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923 -1937, It has 200 images from early fashion shoots from Vogue and Vanity Fair. Steichen was chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. The show brought record crowds when it was features at Britain's National Portrait Gallery earlier this year.
  
• The Royal Ontario Museum is bringing Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 the work of several photographers, including Steichen,Martin Hölig, Cecil Beaton, Baron De Meyer, Man Ray, Bruce Weber and Annie Leibovitz. Their subjects are figures from the literary world, film, music and art, including H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Rebecca West, Ernest Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw.
  

Both shows open September 26 and run until January 3, 2010.

[Steichen photo: Gelatin silver print, Conde Nast Archive, New York]