Beaton: Portraits - Hardcover

Pepper, Terence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300102895 ISBN 13: 9780300102895

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

An exquisite book that celebrates the masterful and evocative portraits created by one of the world’s most famous twentieth-century photographers

Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. A major contributor to Vogue and Vanity Fair inBritain, France, and America, Beaton captured for posterity such admired subjects as artists Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, and Richard Avedon; actresses Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo; statesmen and politicians Winston Churchill and Robert Kennedy; and, of course, Britain’s Royal Family. This sumptuously illustrated book—published on the centenary of Beaton’s birth—brings together many of his evocative portraits in celebration of his remarkable life and work.

Gifted in an extraordinary range of fields, Beaton was noted for his flamboyant sense of style. His portraits, fashion photographs, book jacket designs, war reportage, designs for theater and film, and diaries mark him as one of the first international multi-media artists. This book features an illustrated essay discussing the wide range of the photographer’s career as well as a portfolio of 160 beautiful reproductions of his most famous portraits and an extended illustrated chronology.

Beaton: Portraits isan exciting and comprehensive look at a tour-de-force photographer and is an essential book for anyone interested in photography, fashion, or twentieth-century style and design.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This book accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Feb. 5 to May 31, 2004)

About the Author:

Terence Pepper is Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Peter Conrad is Tutor of English at Christ Church, Oxford; Sir Roy Strong, former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, is also the author of The Artist and the Garden, published by Yale University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300102895
• ISBN 13: 9780300102895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240