Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (født 14. januar 1904, død 18. januar 1980) var en engelsk mode-, portræt- og krigsfotograf, dagbogsskriver, maler og interiørdesigner, samt en Oscarvindende scene og kostumedesigner til film og teatre.

Han modtog Oscar for bedste kostumer i 1958 for Gigi og i 1964 for My Fair Lady, hvor han også modtog Oscar for bedste scenografi. Han modtog en Tony Award for bedste kostumedesign i 1955, 1957, 1960 og 1970.

I den australske film Darlings of the Gods fra 1989 blev Beaton spillet af Shane Briant. I Netflix' serie The Crown fra 2016 blev Beaton spillet Mark Tandy.

Cecil købte herregården Reddish House i Wiltshire i 1947. Han solgte det igen i 1980.

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Fotografier 

 Sir William Walton, 1926
 Stephen Tennant, 1927
 Lady Diana Cooper, 1928
 Charles James (designer), 1929
 Lillian Gish, 1929
 Oliver Messel, 1929
 Lord David Cecil, 1930
 Lady Georgia Sitwell, 1930
 Gary Cooper, 1931
 Molly Fink, 1926
 Pablo Picasso, 1933
 Marlene Dietrich, 1935
 Salvador Dalí, 1936
 Natalie Paley, 1936
 Aldous Huxley, 1936
 Daisy Fellowes, 1937
 Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania, 1937
 Lady Ursula Manners, 1937
 Queen Sita Devi of Kapurthala, 1940
 Bomb Victim (Eileen Dunne), 1940
 Winston Churchill, 1940
 Graham Sutherland, 1940
 Charles de Gaulle, 1941
 Walter Sickert, 1942
 Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, 1943
 John Pope-Hennessy, 1945
 Isabel Jeans, 1945
 Greta Garbo, 1946
 Yul Brynner, 1946
 Vivien Leigh, 1947
 Marlon Brando, 1947
 Truman Capote, 1948–1949
 Bobby Henrey, 1948
 Countess Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, 1951
 Duchess of Windsor, 1951
 Vita Sackville-West, 1952
 C. Z. Guest, 1952
 Graham Greene, 1953
 Elizabeth II's Coronation, 1953
 Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 1953
 Elizabeth Taylor, 1954
 Grace Kelly, 1954
 Mona von Bismarck, 1955
 Bernard Berenson, 1955
 Joan Crawford, 1956
 Mrs. Charles (Jayne Wrightsman), 1956
 Maria Callas, 1956
 Dame Edith Sitwell, 1956
 Colin Wilson, 1956
 Marilyn Monroe, 1956
 Leslie Caron, 1957
 Dolores Guinness, 1958
 Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1960
 Albert Finney, 1961
 Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1962
 Lee Radziwill, 1962
 Karen Blixen, 1962
 Rudolf Nureyev, 1963
 Audrey Hepburn, 1964
 Margot Fonteyn, 1965
 Jacqueline Kennedy, 1965
 Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 1965
 Jamie Wyeth, 1966
 Georgia O'Keeffe, 1966
 Andy Warhol, 1967
 Twiggy, 1967
 Mick Jagger, 1968
 Katharine Hepburn, 1969
 Barbra Streisand, 1969
 Gloria Guinness, 1970
 Hubert de Givenchy, 1970
 Mae West, 1970
 David Hockney, 1970
 Jane Birkin, 1971
 Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 1971
 Marisa Berenson as Luisa Casati, 1971
 Jacqueline de Ribes, 1971
 Pauline de Rothschild, 1972
 Tina Chow, 1973
 Gilbert & George, 1974
 Inès de La Fressange, 1978
 Paloma Picasso, 1978
 Caroline of Monaco, 1978
 Olimpia de Rothschild, 1978
 Dayle Haddon, 1979

 Bibliografi 

 The Book of Beauty (Duckworth, 1930)
 Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook (Batsford, 1937)
 Cecil Beaton's New York (Batsford, 1938)
 My Royal Past (Batsford, 1939)
 History Under Fire with James Pope-Hennessy (Batsford, 1941)
 Time Exposure with Peter Quennell (Batsford, 1941)
 Air of Glory (HMSO, 1941)
 Winged Squadrons (Hutchinson, 1942)
 Near East (Batsford, 1943)
 British Photographers (William Collins, 1944)
 Far East (Batsford, 1945)
 Cecil Beaton's Indian Album (Batsford, 1945-6, republished as Indian Diary and Album, OUP, 1991)
 Cecil Beaton's Chinese Album (Batsford, 1945-6)
 India (Thacker & Co., 1945)
 Portrait of New York (Batsford, 1948)
 Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease (Batsford, 1949)
 Photobiography (Odhams, 1951)
 Ballet (Allan Wingate, 1951)
 Persona Grata with Kenneth Tynan (Allen Wingate, 1953)
 The Glass of Fashion (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954)
 It Gives Me Great Pleasure (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956)
 The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1957)
 Japanese (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959)
 Quail in Aspic: The Life Story of Count Charles Korsetz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962)
 Images with a preface by Edith Sitwell and an introduction by Christopher Isherwood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
 Royal Portraits with an introduction by Peter Quennell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
 Cecil Beaton's 'Fair Lady' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964)
 The Best of Beaton with an introduction by Truman Capote (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
 My Bolivian Aunt: A Memoir (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971)

 Dagbøger 
 Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1922–39 The Wandering Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961)
 Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1944–48 The Happy Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972)
 Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1948–55 The Strenuous Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
 Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1955–63 The Restless Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)
 Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1963–74 The Parting Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978)
 Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926–1974 redigeret af Richard Buckle (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979)
 The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as they were written med introduktion af Hugo Vickers (Orion, 2003)
 Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries med introduktion af Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)

 Litteratur 
 Beaton, Cecil Sir & Boddington, Jennie, 1922– & National Gallery of Victoria (1975). Cecil Beaton's camera. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 
 
 
 

 Referencer 

 Eksterne henvisninger 
 
 
 Cecil Beaton in the National Portrait Gallery
 Beaton's Portraits published by the National Portrait Gallery.
 Theatre Archive University of Bristol
 
 Cecil Beaton textile designs designed in 1948 for Zika Ascher
 Cecil Beaton interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs'', February 1, 1980

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