Cecil Beaton - Photographer

[Estella*]

from www.staleywise.com

Born in 1904 in London and coming of age at the peak of the 20s, Cecil Beaton was in love with the worlds of high society, theater, and glamour. Beauty in his hands was transformed into elegance, fantasy, romance and charm.
His inspired amateurism led to a following among fashionable debutantes and eventually a full fledged career as the foremost fashion and portrait photographer of his day. He was so attuned to the changes of fashion that his career maintained its momentum for five decades; from the Sitwells to the Rolling Stones. Beaton died in 1980.

audrey hepburn, 1954

charles james dresses, 1948

paula gellibrand, 1928

 

[Estella*]

from stern.de

grace kelly, 1940

 

[Estella*]

same source, mm, 1956

 

[Estella*]

nurejew, 1962

 

[nouveau]

i like some of his more austere works...a lot of his stuff is waaaay too camp tho

 

[MulletProof]

brilliant photos, anna. i love old photographers who seemed to experiment a little bit.

 

[fugfashion]

audrey + grace + marilyn =

 

[Joz_]

From my collection

1)Look at this romantic teen, hard to get old
2)Truman capote in greece
3)My fav the"sad clown" Mr Buster Keaton
4)photographers shoots photographers : David Bailey
5)The man himself and his friend truman

By the way thanks anna karina for this good threads !

 

[Estella*]

you're welcome joz, i'm glad you joined tfs, your site has been very helpful to me already

thanks for the additional pictures, the buster keaton portrait is especially beautiful

 

[fredo]

Good choice, but I'm curious : why don"t you mention the man who make th scans? (et pourquoi avoir enlevé mes initiales à la fin des titres??? Sans rancune, mais j'aurais aimé avoir un petit message...).
Fred

 

[Spacemiu]

so beautiful

 

[Joz_]

Mea culpa

the pictures have been scanned by Môsieur Fredo (aka fb)!
Please Fred could you make us some good thread, I planned to do one with your scans of blumenfeld, but if you're here, I let you do it, you know his work way better than me....

 

[Browneyes]

Beaton's pictures are just... ...sigh...

 

[fredo]

Hollywood beaton (suite)

For Dolores del Rio, I just say I hate flowers
It's strange and sad, but miss hepburn died the same night I post this scan
About Marlene, she is the greatest with Garbo (I will post later some scans of the divine).

 

[fredo]

hollywood beaton

garbo, wayne, hepburn, cooper...

 

[fredo]

hollywood beaton the end

powell, monroe, dietrich, weissmuller... but not crawford

 

[Hana_N]

Great pictures!

 

[fredo]

glad you like it. I will post soon some fashion pictures.
fredo

 

[fredo]

and now some fashion pictures

 

[fredo]

cecil and his sisters