Cecil Beaton fut l'un des photographes les plus influents du XXe siècle, réputé pour son sens unique de l'élégance et de la fantaisie. Ses premiers travaux, inspirés par des costumes de théâtre décadents, lui ouvrirent les portes du monde de la mode et du portrait. Il collabora avec le magazine Vogue et devint le photographe officiel de la cour de la famille royale britannique. Au cours de sa carrière de cinquante ans, Beaton immortalisa une galerie de personnalités captivantes, laissant une marque indélébile dans l'histoire de la photographie.
A kind of master of ceremonies to the British Empire, fashion and society photographer Cecil Beaton depicted the high and low of the century with his signature elegance and panache: the British Royal family, the nobility, the London bohemian, and the New York underground. This volume, a comprehensive survey of his work, is now available again in a hardcover edition.
Born in England in 1904, Beaton is one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century. This eccentric multi-talented individual also worked as a designer and novelist. Responsible for the ground-breaking and much-imitated glamour portrait, Beaton's subjects included Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas, Sir Winston Churchill, and the British royal family. In 1939, he took a detour from the world of high style and produced some of the most memorable images of Britain in the war years. After the war, he continued his work as a portrait photographer, but started to design costumes for Hollywood films, winning an Oscar for ?My Fair Lady.? In the 60's Beaton gave fresh life to his photographic style, with portraits of Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, and many Hollywood legends. ? comprehensive overview of one of the 20th century's great photographers ? An important documentary record of the finest historical and celebrity photography by a master of the medium.
This 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.
An enthralling collection of the finest portraits ever created of the 20th century's most famous family photographed by renowned photographer Cecil Beaton over a period of fifty years and selected from nearly ten thousand vintage prints preserved in his private archive. Extracts from Beaton's unpublished diaries offer witty and candid accounts of his royal sittings and Roy Strong, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum where Beaton's private archive of royal photographs is now housed, and a close friend of the photographer, tells the story of the most successful union ever forged between crown and camera
Mr. Beaton's diary of his time in Hollywood working on the filming of "My Fair Lady".
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Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Gesellschaftsfotografen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eleganz, Glamour, Charme und Noblesse kennzeichnen seine brillanten Porträts von weltbekannten Persönlichkeiten aus Kunst, Politik, Bühne und Film. Der faszinierende Bildband präsentiert eine grandiose Auswahl von über 200 Fotoarbeiten aus dem Lebenswerk des vielseitig begabten Hoffotografen, Designers und Schriftstellers. Im Laufe seiner einzigartigen, über ein halbes Jahrhundert umfassenden Karriere gelangen dem Briten mittlerweile zu Ikonen gewordene Aufnahmen von Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Marlon Brando, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Sir Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, Rudolf Nurejew, Mick Jagger, Twiggy und vielen anderen Stars. Ausstellung: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 11.3.-26.6.2005
