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Cecil Beaton Theatre Of War
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Author : Cecil Beaton
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-08-06
Cecil Beaton Theatre Of War written by Cecil Beaton and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-06 with History categories.
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.
Theatre Of War
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Author : Cecil Beaton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Theatre Of War written by Cecil Beaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Photography categories.
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.Theatre of War is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum on the occasion of a major exhibition.
War Photographs 1939 45
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Author : Cecil Beaton
language : en
Publisher: Ihs Global Incorporated
Release Date : 1981
War Photographs 1939 45 written by Cecil Beaton and has been published by Ihs Global Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
Beaton
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Author : Mark Holborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Beaton written by Mark Holborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Photography, Artistic categories.
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.
Cecil Beaton S Bright Young Things
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language : en
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Cecil Beaton S Bright Young Things written by and has been published by National Portrait Gallery this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Photography categories.
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.
Beaton
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Author : Cecil Beaton
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Release Date : 2015-09-03
Beaton written by Cecil Beaton and has been published by Jonathan Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with categories.
Cecil Beaton's sense of style and his much-celebrated career as a designer for film and stage have overshadowed his position as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's persona provided a mask that concealed the seriousness of his accomplishment. His career, running from his earliest pictures in the Twenties to his last work in the Seventies, is unparalleled in its historical breadth. By mid-century he had produced an astonishing array of portraits of the greatest creative figures of his time, including Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. In contrast to the flamboyance and artifice of his early work, Beaton later displayed an almost minimalist eye. Beaton was to become a star on both sides of the Atlantic. He was at home in Hollywood studios as he was in English society. He maintained his role as royal portraitist, photographing the Queen at the same time as he courted the new royalty of the Swinging Sixties. Surprisingly he was commissioned to photograph the set of the film Performance and its star, Mick Jagger in 1968. The film marked the end of an era, as well as Beaton's last great assignment. The book is drawn mostly from the 100,000 prints and negatives of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's and follows the definitive monograph of his work during the war years, Theatre of War, published in 2012.
Malice In Wonderland
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Author : Hugo Vickers
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-05-13
Malice In Wonderland written by Hugo Vickers and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'A fascinating document, a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . . an elegy, sad and comical, to a passing era' Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'I got as caught up in these distant but strangely evocative events as Vickers did . . . delicious in its way, recreating a lost world' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, THE TIMES 'A luxuriant trawl through the recovered past . . . extraordinary book' John Walsh, SUNDAY TIMES 'A quite brilliant record of a fading social and artistic milieu . . . a world to which Vickers is an unrivalled cicerone' Matthew Sturgis, THE OLDIE 'Vickers' diaries bristle with injudicious indiscretion...it is no small compliment to say that the biographer is here the equal of his subject' Michael Arditti, THE SPECTATOR 'Beaton himself was one of the finest 20th-century diarists. It is no small compliment to say that the biographer is here the equal of his subject' THE SPECTATOR 'Illuminating and brilliantly scurrilous' Marcus Field, THE STANDARD 'Scintillating' DAILY MAIL 'When Mr Vickers has his eye to the keyhole, we see a secret panorama' Dominic Green, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Vickers - as ever - is a warm and enthusiastic guide to a nearly lost world' TATLER.COM The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary - often legendary - characters in his search for the real Cecil Beaton. Hugo Vickers's life took a dramatic turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him to be his authorised biographer. The excitement of working with the famous photographer was dashed only days later when Cecil Beaton died. But the journey had begun - Vickers was entrusted with Beaton's papers, diaries and, most importantly, access to his friends and contemporaries. The resulting book, first published in 1985, was a bestseller. In Malice in Wonderland, Vickers shares excerpts from his personal diaries kept during this period. For five years, Vickers travelled the world and talked to some of the most fascinating and important social and cultural figures of the time, including royalty such as the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, film stars such as Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews, writers such as Truman Capote, and photographers such as Irving Penn and Horst. And not only Beaton's friends - Vickers sought out the enemies too, notably Irene Selznick. He was taken under the wings of Lady Diana Cooper, Clarissa Avon and Diana Vreeland. Drawn into Beaton's world and accepted by its members, Vickers the emerging biographer also began his own personal adventure. The outsider became the insider - Beaton's friends became his friends. Malice in Wonderland is a fascinating portrait of a now disappeared world, and vividly and sensitively portrays some of its most fascinating characters as we travel with Vickers on his quest.
The Glass Of Fashion
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Author : Cecil Beaton
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2014-09-02
The Glass Of Fashion written by Cecil Beaton and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Design categories.
Gorgeously repackaged, this reissue of the classic book presents the iconic photographer’s expert and witty reminiscences of the personalities who inspired fashion’s golden eras, and left an indelible mark on his own sense of taste and style. "The camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees," Truman Capote once said of Cecil Beaton. Though known for his portraits, Beaton was as incisive a writer as he was a photographer. First published in 1954, The Glass of Fashion is a classic—an invaluable primer on the history and highlights of fashion from a man who was a chronicler of taste, and an intimate compendium of the people who inspired his legendary eye. Across eighteen chapters, complemented by more than 150 of his own line drawings, Beaton writes with great wit about the influence of luminaries such as Chanel, Balenciaga, and Dior, as well as relatively unknown muses like his Aunt Jessie, who gave him his first glimpse of "the grown-up world of fashion." Out of print for decades but recognized and sought after as a touchstone text, The Glass of Fashion will be irresistible to a new generation of fashion enthusiasts and a seminal book in any Beaton library. It is both a treasury and a treasure.
Portrait Of New York
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Author : Cecil Beaton Cecil
language : en
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Release Date : 2008-11
Portrait Of New York written by Cecil Beaton Cecil and has been published by Hesperides Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with History categories.
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
Cecil Beaton
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Author : Giles Huxley-parlour
language : en
Publisher: Chris Beetles Limited
Release Date : 2009
Cecil Beaton written by Giles Huxley-parlour and has been published by Chris Beetles Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Photography categories.
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was essential to the cultural life of Britain and beyond in the twentieth