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Tiger Woods Semi-Naked On Vanity Fair

Tiger Woods Featured On Vanity Fair Cover

Tiger Woods Featured On Vanity Fair Cover



A bare-chested picture of scandal-hit Tiger Woods showing off his bulging biceps has been exposed to the world.

The latest issue of the US magazine Vanity Fair, featuring the famous golfer on its cover, will hit newsagents’ shelves this week.

The revealing image was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz and the publication promises a full portfolio inside.

The 33-year-old multi-millionaire sportsman has recently been dropped by a number of high-profile sponsors following revelations over a string of extra-martial affairs.

Vanity Fair describes the pictures of Woods – taken before the scandal that erupted after he was hurt in an early morning car crash – as raw and unguarded.

The article accompanying the pictures is definitely post-scandal.

It is called “Tiger in the rough” and starts out, “When Tiger Woods finally fell from his pedestal…”

Leibovitz, who reportedly took the pictures four years ago, said: “Tiger is an intensely competitive athlete – and quite serious about his sport.

“I wanted to reveal that in these photos. And to show his incredible focus and dedication.”

The photographs emerge at a time when the golfer himself has remained hidden.

Woods has not been seen since the crash outside his home in November.


The collision sparked the allegations that Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren had serious marital problems.

He later announced he was giving up golf for the foreseeable future.

US telecommunications company AT&T is the latest firm to end its association with the golfer following the claims of numerous infidelities.

Accenture and Gillette have also dropped support for Woods.

The latest Vanity Fair magazine will go on sale in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday and the rest of the US on January 12.



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Who Reads Vanity Fair?

Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue, 2008
Smart, stylish, and voraciously interested in the world, Vanity Fair readers have an extraordinary ability to discern what is truly worth their time, attention, and money. It is essential for Vanity Fair readers to be conversant in a wide range of topics—from global issues, economics, and travel, to beauty, fashion, and entertainment—and they pursue the knowledge of these subjects with an unusual intensity. Vanity Fair readers actively seek out friends and colleagues with whom they share ideas and experiences, creating a diverse and eclectic network of peers. Known for its ability to "ignite a dinner party at 50 yards," Vanity Fair is meant for readers who enjoy expert-level knowledge and lively, spirited debate.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
  • Fanfair: Vanity Fair’s monthly guide to truly unique and talked-about cultural events around the world, hot new CD’s, books, and films; groundbreaking art and design; exhibitions and theatrical events; fashion, beauty, and travel trends.
  • Fairground: The magazine brings its discriminating eye into the world’s most exclusive events, capturing candid snapshots of the culture’s rich, famous, and iconic. This pictorial feature goes around the world, one party at a time.
  • Columns: Insightful essays by distinguished writers, such as Dominick Dunne, James Wolcott, and Michael Wolff, cover the most relevant topics of the day. These investigations on crime, politics, business, society, the media, and current events are often touted on the cover and have a dedicated following.
  • Vanities: Short takes on today’s most compelling personalities, Vanities is a reader favorite, incorporating splashy graphics and quick wit.
  • Spotlight: Spotlight shines a light on the stars of the future. Former discoveries include Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Lopez, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Gwyneth Paltrow, all before they made it big.
  • Proust Questionnaire: An update of the 19th-century parlor game, this classic Q&A features a different celebrity subject every month.
  • Features: In-depth, award-winning stories about entertainment, the arts, business, politics, fashion, design, and more, are at the heart of the magazine each month.
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Contributors:
With every issue, Vanity Fair allows its contributors the freedom to indulge in extraordinary storytelling, making it a destination for the world’s most renowned photographers and award-winning journalists, such as Marie Brenner, Bryan Burrough, Bob Colacello, Amy Fine Collins, Dominick Dunne, Christopher Hitchens, Sebastian Junger, William Langewiesche, Maureen Orth, Todd Purdum, James Wolcott, and Michael Wolff; and photographers such as Jonathan Becker, Harry Benson, Patrick Demarchelier, Todd Eberle, Larry Fink, Jonas Karlsson, Annie Leibovitz, Tim Hetherington, Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.

Magazine Layout:
With a dynamic combination of big pictures and big stories, Vanity Fair delivers both bold, beautiful photography and the very best thought-provoking journalism in a clean, bold design that is simple yet sophisticated, minimal yet full of restrained energy. When it comes to visually expressing the passions of its stable of photographers, illustrators, writers, and editors, the magazine must look as smart and powerful as the topics it covers.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
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With a broad range of interesting subjects, Vanity Fair is a general interest magazine that captures the best of the best, from world affairs to entertainment, business to style, design to society. Vanity Fair is unique in its ability to act as a cultural catalyst—a magazine that provokes and drives the popular dialogue. No other magazine can match Vanity Fair's unique mix of stunning photography, in-depth reportage, and social commentary. Each month, Vanity Fair accelerates ideas and images to center stage, creating an unrivaled media event that attracts millions of modern, sophisticated readers.

Advertising:
Vanity Fair's advertisers are as eclectic as the editorial content. Fashion and retail advertisers are responsible for the majority of Vanity Fair's ad pages, but other advertising partners stem from a wide array of consumer categories, including automotive, financial institutions, not-for-profits, corporate entities, beauty, travel, entertainment/media, home furnishings, food, and wine and spirits. On average, a little more than half of the pages in Vanity Fair are devoted to advertising (56%).

Awards:
  • The American Society of Magazine Editors has nominated Vanity Fair for 63 National Magazine Awards since 1984; the magazine has won 15 times
  • Winner of National Magazine Awards for Reporting and Photo Portfolio, 2008
  • Winner of National Magazine Award, Columns & Commentary 2007
  • Winner of National Magazine Award, Public Interest 2007
  • Winner of the 51st annual World Press Photo of the Year 2007
  • Gold Medal Award, Photography, Spread/Single Page, Society of Publication Designers’ 42nd Annual Competition 2007
  • Graydon Carter: The only two-time winner of Adweek magazine's Editor of the Year
  • 248 awards for design and photography since 1984
  • Included on Adweek’s Hot List nine times–more than any other magazine

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Hey, I'm a "Professional Subscriber"!
 
Review Date: September 3, 2010
Reviewer: annabelle,
I just went online to see how much a year's subscription in Canada would cost me - it said $38.00. So how come I just received a notice to renew my subscription, with a threat that I need to act by Sept. 15th to "maintain my Professional Subscriber status"?? And my "special price" is only - you guessed it - $38.00. What a bunch of B...S.... you guys are peddling!! Come on - just be honest ok? So far, I've though you were a pretty classy magazine, but now?......###&&&%%%% Bet you won't post or print this.
In Between the Luxury Ads--Journalism that Rhymes with Muckraking
 
Review Date: August 6, 2010
Reviewer: Groovy Vegan, USA
Take a high profile controversial celebrity (e.g. Angelina Jolie) and offer to interview them about their latest book, movie, or charitable deed. Dig up all the dirt on them that you can. Take a high profile, controversial, end-stage terminally ill celebrity (e.g. Dennis Hopper) and do the same, getting their exclusive(!) last interview, and publish it immediately after they die. Spend a token two or three paragraphs or so talking about the book, movie, or charitable deed that was the pretext of the interview, and spend more time raking up all the muck you can of affairs, legal/health/financial troubles--anything juicy. Take a high-profile controversial celebrity alive (Tiger Woods) or alive + dead combo (Elizabeth Taylor) and just rake up everything you can of the above. Or take a high-profile, perfect-appearing dead celebrity (e.g. Grace Kelly) and dig up her secret hidden past of celebrity affairs and teenage virginity loss. Hence, the type of journalism of "Vanity Fair" starts with an F and rhymes with "muckraking."

The ____-raking articles are extremely well-written, engaging, and contain plenty of photos exposing the subject matter. For example, the Tiger Woods piece contained not just (mostly unflattering) photos of Tiger Woods, but extremely revealing full-page (and in 1 case, 100% revealing and 2 pages) photos of his mistresses, helpfully numbered with golf flags.

But ____-raking articles alone cannot make up a magazine. Hence we need filler articles on fashion, media or trouble at the expensive Getty Center art museum in Los Angeles, which are difficult to find amongst all the advertising of fancy cars, expensive watches, perfume, designer sunglasses, and spread-lipped/spread-legged young models who happen to be wearing designer jeans. To find the filler articles, it's best to start from the back of the magazine, as the table of contents is after many pages of nothing but advertising usually somewhere between pages 35 and 50. If you manage to find page 1 of the TOC, good luck finding page 2, as it is "continued on page X"--after a dozen or so more pages of nothing but advertising.

If you're not into celebrities and fashion or disclosing every detail of the Tiger Woods or David Letter scandals is there any reason to read the magazine? Yes, if you want a detailed understanding of financial scandals and the people behind them. I found the article dissecting the Bernie (and social-climbing, materialistic wife Ruth) Madoff Ponzi scheme extremely enlightening as well as the excerpt of Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short" offering a detailed explanation of the banking melt down.

I'm giving Vanity Fair 4 stars, because whether or not one agrees with what they do, they are excellent at what they do. I subtracted a star because their volume of advertising is excessive, even by magazine standards.
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Review Date: July 25, 2010
Reviewer: Corrina Ontiveros, Tucson, AZ
VF covers relevant and interesting topics about people. Just the right mix of glamour and intelligence.

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