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Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

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      • Product Description: The definitive book on the legendary photographer's life in New YorkCity, with many never-before-seen images and reminiscences by hisclosest friends and confidants. From the 1930s, when he helpedrevolutionize fashion journalism, through the 1960s, when he launchedheadlong into the Pop art era, London-based photographer Cecil Beatonbrought to New York City his own perspective--aristocratic, sexuallyambiguous, and theatrical. At the same time, New York offered Beatoninnumerable opportunities to reinvent himself and his career.

        Cecil Beaton: The New York Yearsfeatures sketches, costumes, set designs, previously unpublished letters, and over 220 photographs and drawings, many in color and never seen before. This volume documents Beaton's most influential relationships with quintessential figures of the New York art scene,including Greta Garbo, his female confidant and muse, and Andy Warhol.Richly illustrated, Cecil Beaton is the definitive portfolio chronicling Beaton's stunning career in fashion, portraiture, and the performing arts.  The book is divided into five parts:
        Beaton in Vogue:Beaton's photography for Condé Nast's Vogue in the 1930s hastened the decline of fashion illustration in favor of today's emphasis on photography. Beaton himself became a celebrity photographer, as famous as his subjects, in the later mold of Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz.
        Beaton and the Stage: After World War II, Beaton appeared on the New York stage as an actor, and he also designed sets and costumes for such musicals as My Fair Lady and Coco and operas Vanessa and La Traviata, both at the Metropolitan Opera. 
        Beaton on New York: Beaton produced many illustrated books on New York City and histell-all diaries detailed his life among the city's best-known figures.Beaton was also commissioned to produce innumerable photographs of New Yorkers, from Truman Capote to Tom Wolfe.

      • generic_text_8: Hardback
      • generic_text_3: Donald Albrecht
      • generic_text_4: 01-Oct-11
      • generic_text_5: 240 pages
      • generic_text_2: 24.8 x 2.9 x 30.6 cm
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