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Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles
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Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Awardwinning 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.Portraits by Beaton: Photographs and Diaries combines Beaton s photographic and pen portraits. His images often flattered but his diaries and journals didn t necessarily follow suit; he was described by Jean Cocteau as Malice in Wonderland . Grouped together chronologically in chapters on Bright Young Things, The War Years, High Society, Hollywood Royalty, and The Peacock Revolution, Beaton s portraits offer insight, beauty, witty observations and a fascinating glimpse into his world.Included are Fred Astaire, Mick Jagger, Marlon Brando ( pallid as a mushroom, smoothskinned and scarred, with curved feminine lips and silky hair, he seems as unhealthy as a lame duck. Yet his ramlike profile has the harsh strength of the gutter ), Maria Callas, Coco Chanel, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn ( she is like a portrait by Modigliani where the various distortions are not only interesting in themselves but make a completely satisfying composite ), Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe ( she romps, she squeals with delight, she leaps on the sofa. It is an artless, impromptu, highspirited, infectiously gay performance. It will probably end in tears ), Princess Grace, Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill.Cecil Beaton s life spanned many worlds and these are captured here through his fabulous photographs and incisive pen portraits.
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