24.02.10
Cecil Beaton Snapshot Profile
Name: Cecil Beaton
Born: 1904 Hampstead, England
Area of expertises: Portrait, fashion,
The facts:
One of the most celebrated and renowned photographers of the twentieth century. Cecil Beaton launched his career as a portrait photographer by landing a contract with Vogue magazine of whom he worked for over thirty years. Beaton’s interest in glamour and high society landed him the court photographer for the Royal Family in 1937. During the Second World War he devoted his time to photographing the home front and his image of a three year old girl, Eileen Dunne, has become an iconic image.
Books:
My Royal Past, 1939
Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease, 1949
Photobiography, 1951
Persona Grata, 1953
Indian Diary and Album
The Glass of Fashion
My Bolivian aunt: a memoir
Chinese Diary and Album
Japanese
Ballet
Portrait of New York
Self-portrait with Friends: the Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974
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