The Lady In Tweed
Details of Portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Fuck Yeah Cecil Beaton!
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the...
Photographer Profile ~ Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Beaton (1904- 1980) was a English photographer known primarily for his portraits of celebrated persons, who also worked as an illustrator, a diarist, and an Academy Award-winning costume and set designer. Beaton's interest in photography began when, as a young boy, he admired portraits of society women and actresses circulated on picture postcards and in Sunday supplements of newspapers. When he got his first camera at age 11, his nurse taught him how to use it and how to process…
Edith Sitwell by Cecil Beaton, 1962. "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." - Edith Sitwell
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...
Fripperies and Fobs
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton for the Metropolitan Opera’s...