The unexpurgated Beaton
Subtitle: the Cecil Beaton diaries as he wrote them, 1970-1980
By: introduced by Hugo Vickers
Contributors: Vickers, Hugo
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781400041121
Subjects: Photographers; Diaries
Description: "Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited."

"Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue, designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi, with a cast of characters from many worlds: Bianca Jagger, Greta Garbo, David Hockney, Truman Capote, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Rose Kennedy and assorted Rothschilds, Phippses and Wrightsmans.

In New York, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Rio and Greece, on the Amalfi coast; at shooting parties in the English countryside, on yachts, at garden parties at Buckingham Palace, at costume balls in Venice, Paris or London."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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