Beaton Photographs

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Description

This monumental survey is the primary to do justice to Cecil Beaton’s astonishing photographic career spanning six decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s. To create it, Mark Holborn totally explored Beaton’s vast studio archive, revealing an artist of strange energy and ambition who made definitive portraits of the leading figures of his time, together with Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Lucian Freud, Francis Baron Verulam, David Hockney, and Mick Jagger. Beaton immerses the reader in memorable social and cultural scenes, together with the rite of the British royal circle of relatives, the society of the 1920s, the glamour of Hollywood, the drama of Global War II, the top artistic bohemia of Paris and London, and the pop royalty of the 1960s.

Holborn contributes an introductory essay, and Annie Leibovitz provides an appreciation of Beaton as a portrait photographer.


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