Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was a man of dazzling charm & style & his talents were many. In his twenties he recorded London & New York society in needle-sharp words & drawings & then at Conde Nasts insistence in photographs. The resulting work earned him a place among the great chroniclers of fashion. In this classic book now in a sumptuous paperback edition after many years out of print Josephine Ross selects & introduces articles drawings & photographs by Beaton dating from the 1920s to the 1970s. It
Includes:: Beatons essays & vignettes on high society & its denizens as well as such stars of the arts as Greta Garbo Ralph Richardson Pablo Picasso & David Hockney. It also reproduces Beatons war photographs drawings & writings from bombed London to China & the North Africa Desert. Beaton loved Vogue" & his contributions testify to the wit imagination & professionalism that the man & the magazine always had in common."