«With the work that's up at Lehmann Maupin right now, my memento for that series was a small Cecil
Beaton portrait I found on 1stdibs.
Not exact matches
Also reflected in the pictures is British royalty's attempt to keep pace with a fast - changing world: early
portraits are elaborately composed while photos taken decades later are simpler, with
Beaton's subject stripped of much of her usual regalia.
The deservedly weighty volume is not only an amazing record of a brilliant career, it's a history lesson as well, beginning with 1920s
portraits of
Beaton's sisters at the beach and stretching into the»60s and»70s, with mesmerizing photos of Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol and Tom Wolfe.
PORTRAITS OF A CENTURY Near the end of photographer Cecil
Beaton's life, Sotheby's acquired 100,000 of his photographs and negatives.
Intimate
portraits snapped by friends Jean Cocteau, Cecil
Beaton and Man Ray, and an array of paintings, drawings and sculptures suggest further parallels between the camera and his art.
The intimate image dialogue between one celebrated photographer and another is an explicit theme of this exhibition with highlights including a
portrait of Eugene Atget by Berenice Abbott, Lee Miller by Man Ray, Man Ray by David Bailey, Helmut Newton by Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber by Horst, Henri Cartier - Bresson by Arnold Newman, and Andy Warhol by Sir Cecil
Beaton among other remarkable examples which capture significant 20th - century figures who are usually behind the camera.
A self -
portrait by British fashion photographer Cecil
Beaton shows him with elaborate backdrops and props, a sly smile on his face.
Cecil
Beaton was an English fashion and
portrait photographer known for his photographs of the...
Photographically, American work will remain in focus, thanks to the all - encompassing National
Portrait Gallery show Americans, comprising
portraits from Washington's National
Portrait Gallery, not to mention Unseen Vogue at the Design Museum which will include magazine work by the great Irving Penn alongside usual suspects
Beaton, Bailey and Newton.
Among the 20th - century's top
portrait photographers are: Cecil
Beaton (1904 - 1980), Yousuf Karsh (1908 - 2002), Norman Parkinson (1913 - 90), Irving Penn (1917 - 2009), Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971), Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004), David Bailey (b. 1938), Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949) and Steve McCurry (b. 1950).
(In turn, Sutherland had his
portrait done by the great British photographer Cecil
Beaton 1904 - 80.)
Photographic
portraits by Cecil
Beaton are regularly shown in some of the best galleries of contemporary art in Europe and America.
• Cecil
Beaton's Photography • Biography • Selected Exhibitions •
Portraits by Cecil
Beaton • Great
Portrait Photographers • Great Fashion Photographers
The show moves from majestic
portraits by Pietro Annigoni and Cecil
Beaton of the young queen in her regalia to more relaxed domestic scenes from the 1960s.