Cecil Beaton's sense of style and his much-celebrated career as a designer for film and stage have overshadowed his position as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's persona provided a mask that concealed the seriousness of his accomplishment. His career, running from his earliest pictures in the Twenties to his last work in the Seventies, is unparalleled in its historical breadth. By mid-century he had produced an astonishing array of portraits of the greatest creative figures of his time, ...
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Cecil Beaton's sense of style and his much-celebrated career as a designer for film and stage have overshadowed his position as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's persona provided a mask that concealed the seriousness of his accomplishment. His career, running from his earliest pictures in the Twenties to his last work in the Seventies, is unparalleled in its historical breadth. By mid-century he had produced an astonishing array of portraits of the greatest creative figures of his time, including Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. In contrast to the flamboyance and artifice of his early work, Beaton later displayed an almost minimalist eye. Beaton was to become a star on both sides of the Atlantic. He was at home in Hollywood studios as he was in English society. He maintained his role as royal portraitist, photographing the Queen at the same time as he courted the new royalty of the Swinging Sixties. Surprisingly he was commissioned to photograph the set of the film Performance and its star, Mick Jagger in 1968. The film marked the end of an era, as well as Beaton's last great assignment. The book is drawn mostly from the 100,000 prints and negatives of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's and follows the definitive monograph of his work during the war years, Theatre of War, published in 2012.
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Add this copy of Beaton Portraits to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1968 by H.M.S. O.
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Used-Good. Good stapled paperback. 1968 publication with numerous B&W illustrations; cover scuffed and worn at edges with some light creasing; page edges yellowed; otherwise, a good, tidy copy.
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Good. Light bumps/wear at edges/corners. Light marks, scratches and creasing to cover. Fading/marks at text blocks. Fading at page edges. Text/pictured good and clean. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Owl Book.
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1968, Her Majesty's Stationery Office / National Portrait Gallery
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Her Majesty's Stationery Office / National Portrait Gallery
Published:
1968
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18324524846
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Foreword by Roy Strong. Slim small quarto. Heavily illustrated from photographs. Fine in plain stapled wrappers in worn, just about very good glossy dust jacket. Most spreads feature a full-page image of someone famous as well as a smaller Beaton self-portrait.
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Very Good. No Jacket, As Issued. 4to First edition thus. First softcover edition. Published NY: Holt, 1986, first printing. 4to. wrappers, 8 1/2" x 11 3/4", 256pp., illustrated with 200 b/w plates. Very good, clean, bright.
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Fine. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. Large quarto paperback bound in stiff pebbled card covers with portrait of Beaton on front cover. 256 pages. Illustrated with 252 black and white photographic plates by Beaton and another 50 odd monochromatic shots of friends and personalities, including the Queen, the Queen mother, Anita Loos and the woman he loved, Greta Garbo. First paperback edition by Owl Books {Henrey HolT}, first printing thus with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. sharp corners. Small round punch hole in rear cover, remainder mark? Else a clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Fine. A large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, charged at actual cost.
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Photographs. Good to Fair (edgewear). No Jacket. Large Format Paperback Photography: The work of the celebrated portrait photographer from Queen Elizabeth to Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Augustus John, C. Day Lewis, W.H. Auden, Rudolf Nureyev and others. Thank you for shopping at an independent bookstore.
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Good. First Edition. first edition book, writing on the cover page, light amount of wear along the edges of the cover of the book Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
