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Author: Cecil Beaton Publisher: Random House ISBN: 144648436X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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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 Museums. They form a great document both of the landscape of war and of the passing of the Empire. He travelled through the Western Desert and on to Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. In 1943 he left for India where he photographed the final days of the Raj in New Delhi and Calcutta before joining the Burma campaign. He ended the war deep in Chinese territory where he witnessed the Nationalist resistance to the Japanese. Beaton's inherent sense of theatre extended from palatial drawing rooms to the jungle and the desert. Whatever the circumstances he never departed from his radical aesthetic. Theatre of War is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums on the occasion of a major exhibition.
Author: Cecil Beaton Publisher: Random House ISBN: 144648436X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
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 Museums. They form a great document both of the landscape of war and of the passing of the Empire. He travelled through the Western Desert and on to Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. In 1943 he left for India where he photographed the final days of the Raj in New Delhi and Calcutta before joining the Burma campaign. He ended the war deep in Chinese territory where he witnessed the Nationalist resistance to the Japanese. Beaton's inherent sense of theatre extended from palatial drawing rooms to the jungle and the desert. Whatever the circumstances he never departed from his radical aesthetic. Theatre of War is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums on the occasion of a major exhibition.
Author: Publisher: National Portrait Gallery ISBN: 9781855147720 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 280
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The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton In 1920s and '30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the "Bright Young Things." Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (in Vile Bodies), Anthony Powell and Henry Green, these men and women cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch and embodied its roaring spirit. In a series of themed chapters, covering Beaton's first self-portraits and earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 50 leading figures who sat for Beaton are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast are Beaton's socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne du Maurier. Beaton's photographs are complemented by a wide range of letters, drawings, book jackets and ephemera, and contextualised by artworks created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex Whistler and Henry Lamb. Cecil Beaton (1904-80) is one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the 20th century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. Beaton quickly developed a reputation for his striking and fantastic photographs, which culminated in his portraits of Queen Elizabeth in 1939. Also well known as a diarist, Beaton became a society fixture in his own right. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers.
Author: Mark Holborn Publisher: ISBN: 9780224101806 Category : Photography, Artistic Languages : en Pages : 0
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Cecil Beaton's sense of style and his much-celebrated career as a designer for film and stage have come to overshadow his position as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Looking back from his final working years in the 1970s to the beginnings of his photography in the 1920s, we discover much more than a social record. This book is a reassessment of the complete photographic work, spanning six decades, mostly drawn from the 100000 prints and negatives in the Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's, and follows the definitive monograph of his work during the war years, Theatre of War, published in 2012.
Author: Leo Lerman Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307495744 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 730
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A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new talents, fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal him also as having an unusually rich and complex private life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and 1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence, insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and his own moving private story.
Author: Cecil Beaton Publisher: Frances Lincoln ISBN: 9780711239210 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Cecil Beaton Cecil Publisher: Hesperides Press ISBN: 1443723711 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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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 these passes, I should like tothank Mr. Ivan Moflat for his stories and impressions, M r. WaldemarHansen and Mr. Charles Henri Ford for much interesting informationand for their enthusiasm on our sightseeing expeditions, Miss lidithOlivier for her advice and energy with scissors, Mr. Charles iYy andMr. Brian Cook Batsford for layingout the pages, and the authorsof those books and articles which have directed me to discoverhitherto unknown aspects of the city.C. B. CONTENTS: I. AROUND IHE CLOCK 11L LONGSHOT AND CLOSEUP 7m. IHE ANIMAL 12IV. OF EVERYDAY 34V. CIVIC SCENIC 57VI. IMCONB0CTED TOURS 79VH. THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD AMD CULTURAL SCENE 111VDI. LAST 128
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