Cecil Beaton - Portraits and Profiles
Category: Livres,Art, Musique et Cinéma,Photographie
Cecil Beaton - Portraits and Profiles Details
Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer. He is one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles combines Beaton s photographic and pen portraits. His images often flattered but his diaries, journals and essays didn t necessarily follow suit; he was described by Jean Cocteau as Malice in Wonderland . Grouped together braodly chronologically in chapters on The Roaring Twenties, High Society, Hollywood, The War Years, The Arts, and The Peacock Revolution, Beaton s portraits offer insight, beauty, witty observations and a fascinating glimpse into his world. Included are Mick Jagger, Marlon Brando ( pallid as a mushroom, smooth-skinned and scarred, with curved feminine lips and silky hair, he seems as unhealthy as a lame duck. Yet his ram-like profile has the harsh strength of the gutter ), Maria Callas, Coco Chanel, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn ( she is like a portrait by Modigliani where the various distortions are not only interesting in themselves but make a completely satisfying composite ), Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe ( she romps, she squeals with delight, she leaps on the sofa. It is an artless, impromptu, high-spirited, infectiously gay performance. It will probably end in tears ), Princess Grace, Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill. Cecil Beaton s life spanned many worlds and these are captured here through his fabulous photographs and incisive pen portraits.
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C.Beaton est né au début du siècle passé en Angleterre et a traversé l'Atlantique pour devenir un des plus grands photographes de stars du 20ème siècle.Tout l'intérêt du livre réside dans la confrontation des photos connues, faites par C. BEATON et de petits textes illustratifs et bien souvent vachards qu'il a écrits dans son journal, sur ses modèles du moment . Un double plaisir en quelque sorte.
