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The Hepburn most associated with Cecil Beaton is Audrey, whose "purity and integrity," whose "enormous understanding, tact and . . . willingness to learn" he hymned throughout "Cecil Beaton's 'Fair Lady' " (1964), the published diary of his time in Hollywood designing sets and costumes for the film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. In "The Unexpurgated Beaton" (Knopf; $35), the diaries that the designer and photographer kept during the nineteen-seventies, his last decade, it's the other Hepburn who shows up, and the result is, to say the least, a corrective to the more hagiographic recent obits: "She is the ...
- The Unexpurgated Beaton. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review April 1, 2003 700+ words
The Unexpurgated Beaton. Hugo Vickers, editor. Weidenfeld...especially 'society photographers'. Cecil Beaton was the most celebrated of this breed...biographer. Those who have read and enjoyed Beaton's previously published six volumes...
- BEATON MANIA.
- Magazine article from: WWD Conti, Samantha February 10, 2004 700+ words
...his birth, London is celebrating Cecil Beaton, the Englishman with the relentlessly...socialites. Today, Sotheby's will unveil Beaton at Large, an exhibition featuring more...them in large format -- accompanied by Beaton's sometimes sweet, sometimes snarling...
- Former UPI president,Rod Beaton dies.
- News wire article from: United Press International July 5, 2002 700+ words
...Calif., Jul 05, 2002 Roderick W. Beaton, an aggressive defender of press freedoms...has died of heart failure at age 79. Beaton, who died Tuesday in Sonoma, had been...suffering a heart attack several years ago. Beaton believed full news coverage from all sources...
- Preserving the wisdom (Native film maker Danny Beaton records Native elders).
- Newspaper article from: Windspeaker Gobert, Trina June 1, 2000 700+ words
...Mohawk documentary film-maker, Danny Beaton, bases his work upon. "I always wanted...with the wisdom of the Elders," said Beaton. "I thought the best way to do it was...documentary film, Mohawk Wisdom Keepers, Beaton documents five Mohawk Elders discussing...
- Shooting stars; For more than half a century Sir Cecil Beaton photographed the...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 5, 2004 700+ words
Byline: JOHN SWANNELL Cecil Beaton was the first photographer this century...David Bailey of his time. I first met Beaton in 1967 in the toilets of Vogue studios...your photographic assistant today, Mr Beaton,' and introduced myself. With a...
- Capturing lives less ordinary; Photographer to the stars Cecil Beaton is the...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) May 29, 2009 700+ words
...be so drawn to those captured by Cecil Beaton? Is it the crafty look he traps in Monroe...Walker Art Gallery, where a display of Beaton's captivating portraits opens in June...whole career." Throughout his life, Beaton continually reinvented his style of photography...
- The Beaton track; EXHIBITIONS.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 9, 2004 700+ words
Byline: SUE STEWARD Cecil Beaton National Portrait Gallery CECIL Beaton's iconic photographs bequeath to us a unique vision...popular history. In the earliest, most lavish photos, Beaton's subjects are memorably decadent, frozen in high...
- On the Beaton Path.(Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton)
- Magazine article from: W D'Souza, Nandini March 1, 2006 700+ words
...the 20th century, photographer Cecil Beaton had access to everyone beautiful and chic...Jean Cocteau, a longtime friend, dubbed Beaton "Malice in Wonderland." "It's time...makeup--it's gone on too long," Beaton ranted to Women's Wear Daily, W's...
