The first book on magazine sensation Holiday which between 1946 and 1977 was one of the most
exciting publications in the world. Renowned for its bold layouts literary credibility and
ambitious choice of photographers and artists Holiday portrayed the romance of travel like no
other periodical.At Holiday magazine's peak urbane editor Ted Patrick and visionary art
director Frank Zachary invited postwar America to see and read about the world. On the
journey readers joined the magazine's renowned roster of talent. Some of the most celebrated
writing by Jack Kerouac Ernest Hemingway Graham Greene Joan Didion Truman Capote Colette
and E. B. White (his piece Here Is New York was commissioned for Holiday in 1949) first
appeared in its pages. Henri Cartier-Bresson documented a breathtaking Paris and other cities
Slim Aarons captured the glamour of travel around the world and Al Hirschfeld and Ludwig
Bemelmans contributed showstopping illustrations of places and personages.Pamela Fiori writes
about the magazine's history giving it context during the era of the jet age world turbulence
and the rise of Madison Avenue advertising. Holiday was a vibrant original inspiring travel
magazines that followed and leaving glorious photography and art as well as thought-provoking
journalism in its wake.
