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31 de may. de 2004 · Beaton captures 50 years of fashion, art and celebrity, from the Sitwells in the 1920s to the Rolling Stones in the late 1960s. Definitive portraits of 20th century celebrities are shown alongside more sombre works from his time as a war photographer.
14 de jun. de 2023 · From Audrey Hepburn to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe to cultural figures like Truman Capote and Mick Jagger, Cecil Beaton photos combined the splendour of historic royal portraiture with the intimacy of photography to immortalise celebrities and even transform the reputation of the British Royal Family.
The photographs of the British Royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) were central to shaping the monarchy's public image in the mid 20th century. Queen Elizabeth II was still a young princess when she first sat for Beaton, a successful fashion photographer, in 1942.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
Photographer, designer and writer Cecil Beaton was one of the leading British photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's early studio portraits of debutantes and celebrities often involved elaborate theatrical backdrops, and helped define the image of the 'Bright young thing'.
En vida de Beaton se publicaron seis volúmenes de sus diarios, desde 1922 a 1974. Las versiones íntegras, mucho más francas e incisivas, se publicaron después de su muerte. 28 . Sus principales exposiciones se celebraron en la National Portrait Gallery de Londres en 1968 y 2004.
Sir Cecil Beaton was one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. His association with the British Royal Family spanned across six decades, making him one of the most represented portrait photographers in the Royal Photograph Collection.
