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Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War
At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Beaton set to work recording the destruction of the Wren churches in the City and the heroism of Londoners under attack. He conducted a survey of Bomber and Fighter Commands for the RAF, which was published with Beaton's own astute commentary. Beaton was an effective propagandist, but his voice, like his photographs, was touchingly elegant. Whatever his subject, Beaton was always a stylist. Beaton's wartime work for the Ministry amounted to seven thousand photographs, which are now housed with their negatives at the Imperial War Mu...
Portrait of New York
PORTRAIT OF NEW YORK by CECIL BEATON. First published in New York on October 1938. PREFACE: I HAVE attempted to bring this book up to date, but I fear the reader will find here little of history, economics, politics or religion. If heis in search of information about the memorial to an Amiable Child, or the Fraunces Tavern, he will find it in an excellent volume to bepurchased for thirty cents on the one hundred and second floor ofthe Empire State Building. My book is far from complete. It is less a guidebook than a catalogue of impressions, mostly visual, of acity that, with each visit, becomes, for me, ever more beguiling, mysterious and impressive.For their help in the preparation of thes...
Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait, and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer. He is one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. Cecil Beaton combines Beaton's photographic and pen portraits. Ordered chronologically, these portraits offer insight, beauty, witty observations, and a fascinating glimpse into his world. Featured portraits include: Fred Astaire, Mick Jagger, Marlon Brando, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, and many others Cecil Beaton's life spanned many worlds and these are captured here through his fabulous photographs and incisive pen portraits.
Cecil Beaton
Britain's court photographer, Cecil Beaton captures, with the eye of a genius, not only the history, the romance, the majestic grandeur, but also the human side of five decades of the Royal Family.
Beaton Portraits
Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century. Self-taught, he was for years a major contributor to Vogue in London, Paris and New York. His ability to attune himself to the changing fashions meant he was equally able to capture the Sitwells of the mid-1920s and the Rolling Stones of the mid-1960s, as well as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali in the 1930s and Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. Beaton's talent was multi-faceted and his fashion photographs, book jacket designs, war reportage, designs for theatre and film, and his diaries, mark him as one of the first international multi-media artists. This sumptuously illustrated book demonstrates his finest strength - his evocative portraits. His portfolio of sitters included Audrey Hepburn, the Royal Family and Greta Garbo. Beaton Portraits celebrates the remarkable life and unique work of a quintessential yet avant-garde Englishman, who was gifted with an abundant and flamboyant sense of style.
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Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's
These memories of the immediate postwar years present a vibrant portrait of Greta Garbo, with whom Beaton had a unique and intense relationship, and a brilliant view of the world of celebrated artists, writers, politicians, and others of that time period.
