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Cecil Beaton Bengali Labourer
c. 1943 
Silver print on paper 25.3 x 24.3 cm 
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Acquired with funds from an anonymous donor


Cecil Beaton 
Orson Wells


 Cecil Beaton 
Joan Crawford


Cecil Beaton 
Pablo Picasso


Cecil Beaton 
Greta Garbo


Cecil Beaton 
Mick Jagger


Cecil Beaton 
Audrey Hepburn 


Cecil Beaton  
Vivien Leigh 
1947


Cecil Beaton
 Baba Beaton (Cecil's sister), Wanda Baille-Hamilton and Lady Bridget Poullett
1930


 Cecil Beaton 
Fashion photography
 1920









Cecil Beaton
Behind the camera


Cecil Beaton drinking while wearing his fourth costume of the evening, 
as host of his garden party
circa 1948


Cecil Beaton
The Duchess wears a tulle-and-feather hat and a gray-blue wedding dress. 
Designed by Mainbocher to mimic the fluted lines of a Chinese statue of an early century.


Contacts of  Beaton and Hepburn


Cecil Beaton 
Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady, 
for which he was also the costume designer.


Cecil Beaton
Wallis Simpson


 Cecil Beaton´s camera 
1932 Standard Rolleiflex


Royal Portraits 




Cecil Beaton
 Nancy Mitford 
The Persuit of Love 


Cecil Beaton
W. H. Auden 
Selected Poems 


Beaton in the Sixties 
Alfred A. Knopf. Photograph by Cecil Beaton


NYRB.
Photographs by Cecil Beaton and Mark Gerson.













Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (n. Londres; 14 de enero de 1904 - f. Salisbury; 18 de enero de 1980) fue un diseñador de vestuario y fotógrafo británico.
Tuvo su primera cámara fotográfica a la edad de 11 años, haciendo sus pininos al sacar retratos de sus hermanas. En los años 1920 se convirtió en el fotógrafo oficial de las revistas Vanity Fair y Vogue. Es recordado por sus fotografías de la Segunda Guerra Mundial tomadas en Gran Bretaña y que fueron publicadas en 1942 al otro lado del Atlántico. Después de la guerra diseñó trajes y bastidores para películas como Gigi de 1958 y My Fair Lady de 1964.

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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.[1]

Biography

Beaton was born on 14 January 1904 in Hampstead the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867–1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife Etty Sissons (1872–1962). His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841–1904), had founded the family business of Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents, and his father followed into the business. Ernest Beaton was also an amateur actor and had met his wife, Cecil's mother, when playing the lead in a play. She was the daughter of a Cumbrian blacksmith named Oldcorn who had come to London to visit her married sister.[2] It is through this connection that Cecil is related to the Blessed Father Edward Oldcorne who was involved in the Gunpowder Plot. They had four children — in addition to Cecil there were two daughters Nancy (1909–99) and Baba (1912–73), and another son Reggie (1905–33).
Nancy married Sir Hugh (Smiley Baronets) (1905–90) and Baba married Alec Hambro.
Cecil Beaton was educated at Heath Mount School (where he was bullied by Evelyn Waugh) and St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, where his artistic talent was quickly recognised. Both Cyril Connolly and Henry Longhurst report in their autobiographies being overwhelmed by the beauty of Beaton's singing at the St Cyprian's school concerts.[3][4] When Beaton was growing up his Nanny had a Kodak 3A Camera, a popular model which was renowned for being an ideal piece of equipment to learn on. Beaton's nanny began teaching him the basics of photography and developing film. He would often get his sisters and mother to sit for him. When he was sufficiently proficient, he would send the photos off to London society magazines, often writing under a pen name and ‘recommending’ the work of Beaton.[5]
Beaton attended Harrow, and then, despite having little or no interest in academia, moved on to St John's College, Cambridge, and studied history, art and architecture. Beaton continued his photography, and through his university contacts managed to get a portrait sitting with the Duchess of Malfi — actually George "Dadie" Rylands and, as Beaton recalled years later, "It was a slightly out-of-focus snapshot of him as Webster's Duchess of Malfi standing in the sub-aqueous light outside the men's lavatory of the ADC Theatre at Cambridge."[6] The resulting images gave Beaton his first ever piece of published work when Vogue magazine bought and printed the photos.[5]
Beaton left Cambridge without a degree in 1925, but only coped with salaried employment in his father's timber business for eight days.[6] His brother Reggie however entered the business and remained until his death in October 1933.
For fifteen years between 1930 and 1945, Beaton leased Ashcombe House in Wiltshire, where he entertained many notable figures.
In 1948 he bought Reddish House, set in 2.5 acres of gardens, approximately 5 miles to the east in Broad Chalke. Here he transformed the interior, adding rooms on the eastern side, extending the parlour southwards, and introducing many new fittings. Greta Garbo was a visitor.[7] The upper floor had been equipped for illegal cock-fighting at the beginning of the 20th century but Beaton used the cages as wardrobes to store the costumes from his set design of My Fair Lady. He remained at the house until his death in 1980 and is buried in the churchyard.[8][9][10] In 1947, he also bought a townhouse at number 8 Pelham Place in London.
 
Career
 
Photography

Beaton designed book jackets and costumes for charity matinees, learning the professional craft of photography at the studio of Paul Tanqueray, until Vogue took him on regularly in 1927.[6] He also set up his own studio, and one of his earliest clients and, later, best friends was Stephen Tennant; Beaton's photographs of Tennant and his circle are considered some of the best representations of the Bright Young People of the twenties and thirties.
He was a photographer for the British edition of Vogue in 1931 when George Hoyningen-Huene, photographer for the French Vogue traveled to England with his new friend Horst. Horst himself would begin to work for French Vogue in November of that year. The exchange and cross pollination of ideas between this collegial circle of artists across the Channel and the Atlantic gave rise to the look of style and sophistication for which the 1930s are known.[11]
Beaton is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue in addition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood.
Beaton's first camera was a Kodak 3A folding camera. Over the course of his career, he employed both large format cameras, and smaller Rolleiflex cameras. Beaton was never known as a highly skilled technical photographer, and instead focused on staging a compelling model or scene and looking for the perfect shutter-release moment.
Beaton often photographed the Royal Family for official publication.[12] Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was his favourite Royal sitter, and he once pocketed her scented hankie as a keepsake from a highly successful shoot. Beaton took the famous wedding pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (wearing an haute couture ensemble by the noted American fashion designer Mainbocher).
During the Second World War, Beaton was initially posted to the Ministry of Information and given the task of recording images from the home front. During this assignment he captured one of the most enduring images of British suffering during the war, that of three-year-old Blitz victim Eileen Dunne recovering in hospital, clutching her beloved teddy bear. When the image was published, America had not yet officially joined the war—but splashed across the press in the US, images such as Beaton’s helped push the American public to put pressure on their Government to help Britain in its hour of need.[5]
Beaton had a major influence on and relationship with two other leading lights in British photography, that of Angus McBean and David Bailey. McBean was arguably the best portrait photographer of his era—in the second part of McBean's career (post-war) his work is clearly heavily influenced by Beaton, though arguably McBean was technically far more proficient in his execution. Bailey was also enormously influenced by Beaton when they met while working for British Vogue in the early 1960s, Bailey's stark use of square format (6x6) images bears clear connections to Beaton's own working patterns.
 
Stage and film design

After the war, Beaton tackled the Broadway stage, designing sets, costumes, and lighting for a 1946 revival of Lady Windermere's Fan, in which he also acted.
His most lauded achievement for the stage was the costumes for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956), which led to two Lerner and Loewe film musicals, Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964), both of which earned Beaton the Academy Award for Costume Design. He also designed the period costumes for the 1970 film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
Additional Broadway credits include The Grass Harp (1952), The Chalk Garden (1955), Saratoga (1959), Tenderloin (1960), and Coco (1969). He is the winner of four Tony Awards.
He also designed the sets and costumes for a production of Puccini’s last opera Turandot, first used at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and then at Covent Garden.
He also designed the academic dress of the University of East Anglia.[13]
 
Diaries

Cecil Beaton was also a published and well-known diarist. In his lifetime six volumes of diaries were published, spanning the years 1922–1974. Recently a number of unexpurgated diaries have been published. These differ immensely in places to Beaton's original publications. Fearing libel suits in his own lifetime, it would have been foolhardy for Beaton to have included some of his more frank and incisive observations.[14]
 
Personal life

He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 1972.[15]
Two years later he suffered a stroke that would leave him permanently paralysed on the right side of his body. Although he learnt to write and draw with his left hand, and had cameras adapted, Beaton became frustrated by the limitations the stroke had put upon his work. As a result of his stroke, Beaton became anxious about financial security for his old age and, in 1976, entered into negotiations with Philippe Garner, expert-in-charge of photographs at Sotheby's. On behalf of the auction house, Garner acquired Beaton's archive—excluding all portraits of the Royal Family, and the five decades of prints held by Vogue in London, Paris and New York. Garner, who had almost singlehandedly invented the photographic auction, oversaw the archive's preservation and partial dispersal, so that Beaton's only tangible assets, and what he considered his life's work, would ensure him an annual income. The first of five auctions was held in 1977, the last in 1980
By the end of the 1970s, Beaton's health had faded. In January 1980, he died at Reddish House, his home in Broad Chalke in Wiltshire, at the age of 76.[5]
The great love of his life was the art collector Peter Watson, although they were never lovers. He had relationships with various men. He also had relationships with women, including the actress Coral Browne, the dancer Adele Astaire, and the British socialite Doris, Viscountess Castlerosse.
Honours, awards and medals
•    Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Quadrille (play) (1955)
•    CBE (1956)
•    Tony Award for Best Costume Design for My Fair Lady (1957)
•    Fellow of the Ancient Monuments Society (1957)
•    Academy Award for Costume Design for Gigi (1958)
•    Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Saratoga (1960)
•    Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (1960)
•    Academy Award for Best Art Direction for My Fair Lady (1964)
•    Academy Award for Costume Design for My Fair Lady (1964)
•    Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (1965)
•    Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Coco (musical) 1970
•    Knighthood (1972

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