Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was educated at Harrow and Cambridge.
His photographs first appeared in Vanity Fair and Vogue in the
1920s. During World War II he served in the British Ministry of
Information, covering the fighting in Africa and East Asia. The
foremost photographer of his day, he also designed the settings and
costumes for numerous films and plays, and was a published and
well-known diarist. Beaton was knighted in 1972.
Hugo Vickers is a biographer, lecturer and broadcaster. He was
invited to become Cecil Beaton's authorized biographer in 1979 and
has since 1987 served as Beaton's literary executor.
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extraordinary subjects."
"his fashion polymath status would put us all to shame, and today
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"Essential. From this moment on we will not enter a house
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print.""beautifully produced volume of his most iconic sitters""the
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George.""this wonderful collection comes with Beaton's equally
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fascinating photographer and his extraordinary subjects."'[Cecil
Beaton: Portraits and Profiles]...would also make the perfect
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artistic scene of the twentieth century.'
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