Cecil Beaton

The personal journals of an official photographer to the British royal family and Academy Award-winning Hollywood and Broadway designer feature his observations of the worlds of fashion, society, and show business as well as his relationships with a host of famous figures and celebrities. Reprint.

The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980

The Unexpurgated Beaton

Glass of Fashion

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.

Theatre of War

Roy C. Strong

The Royal Portraits

Robin Muir

Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things

Diaries, 1955-63

The Restless Years

Cecil Beaton's Diaries

The Years Between 1939-44

The Parting Years 1963-74

Diaries 1944-48

The Happy Years

Richard Buckle

The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1922-1974

Self-Portrait With Friends

a personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who have inspired them

The glass of fashion

Ballet

Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles

"Cecil Beaton was one of the 20th century's most important photographers, and now for the first time ever, Assouline presents his private scrapbooks—personal collections of the man who helped invent the cult of personality."--Publisher's description.

The Art of the Scrapbook

Beaton

Ashcombe was derelict when Cecil Beaton first saw it, the surviving fragment of a once grand eighteenth century country house set amidst rolling downland. OVer the next fifteen years Beaton transformed Ashcombe into a rural idyll, and a few other memoirs of the period so vividly evoke the gilded slightly edgy flavour of the 1930s. Through Ashcombe's doors flowed artitis, dukes, aesthetes, exiles, filmstars, writers, eccentrics. Yet the house was also Beaton's wartime refuge from his growing success as a photographer and the backdrop to a doomed affair.

The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease

Ashcombe

These memories of the immediate postwar years present a vibrant portrait of Greta Garbo, with whom Beaton had a unique and intense relationship, and a brilliant view of the world of celebrated artists, writers, politicians, and others of that time period.

Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's

The personal journals of an official photographer to the British royal family and Academy Award-winning Hollywood and Broadway designer feature his observations of the worlds of fashion, society, and show business during the sixites.

The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1965-1969

Beaton in the Sixties

Giles Huxley-parlour

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was essential to the cultural life of Britain and beyond in the twentieth

Donald Albrecht

Museum of the City of New York

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of the City of New York, October 2011-March 2012.

The New York Years

Sketches of various contemporary women of note, with portraits.

Cecil Beaton

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