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Cecil Beaton’s images became some of the most iconic of the late Queen Elizabeth, and they're being captured in a new book by Claudia Acott Williams.
It was the Queen Mother who made sure fashion photographer Cecil Beaton took the official Coronation pictures, including these rarely seen behind-the-scenes images. He had photographed her in 1939 ...
One wonders what Beaton would make of “Love, Cecil.” Vreeland’s film certainly attempts to touch on its subject’s inner life: the emotional impact of the suicide, in 1933, of Beaton’s ...
Cecil Beaton, one of 20th-century Britain’s most celebrated photographers, has caught up with the Instagram age. In 2016, the curator Robin Muir began posting Beaton’s black-and-white photo ...
Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party, the exhibition, isn’t, alas, just about that fabulous fete champetre he held at his country home in Wiltshire in 1937 for his gilded young friends. That was one of ...
Hugo Vickers, Beaton’s biographer and literary executor, says: “Sister Rowe would always come to Cecil’s rescue. She would put a drop of glycerin on the baby’s tongue to make it smile.
The massive new volume “Beaton: Photographs,” out next week from Abrams, presents an expansive chronological survey of Cecil Beaton’s career, with images spanning more than half a century ...