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Works by Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits (1963) — Photographer — 109 copies
Beaton Portraits (2004) — Photographer — 85 copies
Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue (2002) — Photographer — 46 copies
Cecil Beaton: Photographs 1920-1970 (1994) — Photographer — 43 copies
British Photographers (1944) 36 copies
Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady (1964) 31 copies
Cecil Beaton: A Retrospective (1986) — Photographer — 25 copies
Photobiography (1951) 21 copies
Indian Diary and Album (1991) 20 copies
Ballet (1951) 19 copies
Cecil Beaton (1984) 19 copies
The best of Beaton (1968) 17 copies
Near East (1943) 17 copies
Persona Grata (1953) 16 copies
Cecil Beaton's New York (1938) 16 copies
I Take Great Pleasure (1955) 15 copies
Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton (2017) — Photographer — 15 copies
Portrait of New York (2006) 13 copies
Time Exposure (1941) 12 copies
Chinese Diary and Album (1991) 11 copies
My Bolivian Aunt: A Memoir (1971) 10 copies
My royal past (1939) 10 copies
Chinese album (1945) 10 copies
Japanese (1959) 9 copies
Far East (1945) 8 copies
Vogue's Gallery of 50 Famous Author's and Artists (1962) — Photographer — 7 copies
Cecil Beaton's scrapbook (1937) 7 copies
Fotografie: Cecil Beaton (2005) 6 copies
Cecil Beaton (1983) 5 copies
Images (1964) 5 copies
Beaton: Photographs (1969) 5 copies
Indian album 4 copies
Production (1943) 3 copies
Cecil Beaton ; the dandy photographer (1998) — Photographer — 3 copies
Cecil Beaton (2010) — Photographer — 2 copies
Cecil Beaton porträts (2005) — Photographer — 2 copies
Tangier 2 copies
Fair Lady 1 copy
Intorno al mondo (1990) 1 copy
India 1 copy

Associated Works

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) — Cover artist, some editions — 2,668 copies
The Duchess of Malfi (1614) — Photographer, some editions — 1,159 copies
Madame de Pompadour (1954) — Cover artist, some editions — 886 copies
My Fair Lady [1964 film] (1964) — Costumes — 713 copies
My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts Based on "Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw (1956) — Illustrator, some editions — 417 copies
Short Stories from the Strand (1992) — Contributor — 139 copies
London: Portrait of a City (2013) — Photographer — 85 copies
The Queen's Book of the Red Cross (1939) — Photographer — 36 copies
Happy and glorious : 130 years of royal photographs (1977) — Contributor — 19 copies

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Can never spend too much time looking at his life.
A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton’s estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves.

Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London.

Beaton began as an outsider and “developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass,” and later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, “His eagle eye missed nothing.” The Unexpurgated Beaton is not only a great read and wicked fun, but also a timeless chronicle of our age.

Although in his lifetime Cecil Beaton - royal photographer and theatrical designer - published six short volumes of his diaries, he was shy of hurting the feelings of those he wrote about. Hugo Vickers has gone back to the originals to produce the Beaton diaries as they were written. Beaton records a vigorous social life among hostesses such as Emerald Cunard and Sybil Colefax, performers including Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, as well as artists from Cocteau and Picasso to Bacon and the young Hockney. Running through the diaries are his friendships with the Queen Mother, with Diana Cooper and Greta Garbo. In the unexpurgated edition Vickers shows what Beaton really had to say about those with whom he worked. He could be waspish, even brutal. His diaries are frank and uninhibited.
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Karen74Leigh | 1 other review | Aug 19, 2023 |
Can never spend too much time looking at his life.
A twentieth-century photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton’s estate and the author of his acclaimed biography, has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves.

Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds, at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London.

Beaton began as an outsider and “developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass,” and later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, “His eagle eye missed nothing.” The Unexpurgated Beaton is not only a great read and wicked fun, but also a timeless chronicle of our age.

Although in his lifetime Cecil Beaton - royal photographer and theatrical designer - published six short volumes of his diaries, he was shy of hurting the feelings of those he wrote about. Hugo Vickers has gone back to the originals to produce the Beaton diaries as they were written. Beaton records a vigorous social life among hostesses such as Emerald Cunard and Sybil Colefax, performers including Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, as well as artists from Cocteau and Picasso to Bacon and the young Hockney. Running through the diaries are his friendships with the Queen Mother, with Diana Cooper and Greta Garbo. In the unexpurgated edition Vickers shows what Beaton really had to say about those with whom he worked. He could be waspish, even brutal. His diaries are frank and uninhibited.
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Karen74Leigh | Aug 19, 2023 |
Beaton had published his diaries expurgated: The Wandering Years, The Years Between, The Happy Years, The Strenuous Years, the Restless Years and the Parting Years. In 1979 Richard Buckle edited with Cecil excerpts of those diaries into this very interesting name dropping word salad. As I just finished Malice In Wonderland and plan to start Hugo Vickers 1985 biography of Cecil before launching into the two very thick compilations of his original manuscript diaries unexpurgated by Hugo Vickers in the 1990s... I am also watching a lot of videos on Cecil and his friends and started collecting his photographs on Pinterest.… (more)
 
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Karen74Leigh | Jul 30, 2023 |
The dust jacket pictured above is badly damaged. It is also probably the worst image of the book. Part of "The Face of the World" series.
 
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Helen.E.Moss | Nov 14, 2021 |

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