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Nicky Haslam on Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World at the National Portrait Gallery
The exhibition highlights Beaton's influential work from 1922 to 1955, including fashion photography and wartime images, curated by Robin Muir at the National Portrait Gallery.
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The World According to Cecil Beaton
In London, the first exhibition devoted entirely to the British photographer features candids of Elizabeth Taylor, costumes for My Fair Lady, and portraits of Queen Elizabeth By Tracy Doyle Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, born in 1904 in Hampstead, England, looked at the world and thought he could do better. “I have wonderful plans and I am going to do marvelous things,” announced the youngster. Taught how to use a camera by his nanny, educated at Ha…
‘One remembers not to give the Queen a thump of joyful friendliness’: Remembering Norman Parkinson — revolutionary fashion photographer and Cecil Beaton’s only homegrown rival
Cecil Beaton might be the toast of London right now, with a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, but contemporary Norman Parkinson was always hot on his heels.
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