Beaton Portraits.
Pepper, Terence; Strong, Roy (foreword); Conrad, Peter (essay).
Place Published: New Haven:
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Date Published: 2004.
Description: FOLIO 12" tall. FIRST US EDITION. 240 pages with index. The book and dust jacket are VERY GOOD+ with 6" incision to both the dust jacket and front black cloth board, tear at seam of front endpapers is taped. Black & white and color photo illustrated. Dust jacket notes read: "Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. A major contributor to VOGUE and VANITY FAIR in Britain, France, and America, Beaton captured for posterity such admired subjects as artists Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, 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 is an exciting and comprehensive look at a tour-de-force photographer and is an essential book for anyone interest in photography, fashion, or twentieth-century style and design." TABLE OF CONTENTS: Sponsor's Foreword by Herbert Smith; Foreword by Sandy Naime; BEATON PORTAITS 1928-1968 REMEMBERED by Roy Strong; BEATON FOREBEARS AND CONTEMPORARIES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY by Terence Pepper; CHRONOLOGY by Terence Pepper; PORTAITS OF BEATON; BEATON IN BRILLIANTIA by Peter Conrad; PLATES 1922-1939 THE WANDERING YEARS London, Paris, New York and Hollywood; 1940-1950 THE YEARS BETWEEN The War Years and Post-War Arts; 1951-1960 THE STRENUOUS YEARS Picturing the Arts; 1961-1978 PARTYING AND THE PARTING YEARS Apotheosis and Retrospection; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PICTURE CREDITS; INDEX.
Edition: First editionBinding: Cloth
Condition: Very Good in Very Good + DJ
ISBN: 0300102895
Book Id: 17456
Price: $55.00
