Cecil Beaton: Photographs 1920-1970.
Garner, Phillipe; Mellor, David.
Place Published: Edison, New Jersey, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang,
Date Published: 1996.
Description: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 319 pages. Black & white and color illustrated. The book is NEAR FINE with slightly bumped top corner. Dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelfwear. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. This book is extremely heavy and may require additional postage. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and Cecil Beaton. "CECIL BEATON (1904-1980) was a tirelessly busy man with an amazing range of talents. His career included theater and film design, arbitrating taste to London's High Bohemia, writing and gardening in his country estate. However, it was as a photographer that Cecil Beaton achieved immortality for, as Truman Capote once said, Beaton '.. documented and illuminated the exact attitude of the moment.' From British royalty, for which he was court photographer, to the New York underground scene, where he became a role model for Andy Warhol, Beaton moved easily between social extremes without apparent effort. From the early 1920s to the 1970s, he photographed the most important people in society, fashion, literature, art and film including HRH Queen Elizabeth, Edith Sitwell, Marlene Dietrich, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Gary Cooper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Colette, Wallis Simpson and many, many others. For years, his work filled countless pages of Vogue with his inimitable blend of wit, invention and high style. Almost fifteen years after Beaton's death, this opulently produced monograph is the first comprehensive presentation of his work. Included in this marvelous volume are more than 265 duotone and full-color photographs, summing up one of the most significant contributions to the history of photography in the twentieth century."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 155670433X
Book Id: 9653
Price: $145.00
