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Love Affair in Edinburgh

If you like Heat you'll hate this. The current National Portrait Gallery exhibition (14 June-21 Sept 08) is basically a homage to celebrity. No 'tummy tuck nightmares' here. However, if you can get past this, you'll get a huge culture high from the artistry and alternative perspectives on well-known icons.

photo from http://flickr.com/photos/london/503427113/

Chaplin is caught looking anything but chaplinesque - dreamy and ethereal, while the passion in Natatia Vodianova's pose is anything but contemplative. Aside from the appearance of the photos, you'll find the captions an insightful snapshot into the characters' contributions to 20th century culture and provide a great starting point for reading and film choices. Tom Cruise and family interestingly does not receive any captioned comment.

Perhaps one of the most striking images is the photo of Anna May Wong, disembodied, with a huge chrysanthamum positioned alongside. Coiffered and coutured to within an inch of their lives and in competition for your attention, most of the photos vie for your attention just as the subjects do. Loudly.

This pressure on celebrities to appear more than do is nowhere more obvious than in the fact that the most covers prize goes to Madonna. See if you can guess whose cover was the best selling issue of Vanity Fair ever. Answers on a postcard.

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