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Cecil Beaton


October 2023

  • Queen Elizabeth II being photographed by Cecil Beaton at Buckingham Palace, November 1955

    Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits by Claudia Acott Williams; Queen Elizabeth II: A Photographic Portrait by Philip Ziegler – review

    Two collections of photographs, one newly updated, reveal how important society snappers such as Cecil Beaton were in establishing the royals as sacrosanct figures

September 2022

  • Rachel Cooke

    Notebook
    Cecil Beaton’s picture brings the Queen back within touching distance

    Rachel Cooke
    A design by one of Elizabeth II’s favourite photographers is mine for less than the price of a train ticket

June 2020

  • Coco Chanel, Paris, 1965.

    'Stay for lunch!' Cecil Beaton's sublime portraits – in pictures

    From Salvador Dalí in a fencing mask to Coco Chanel in her luxurious Paris flat, everyone who was anyone in the early 20th century had their portrait taken by Cecil Beaton

March 2020

  • Titian’s Danae c1554-6 at the National Gallery

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Titian's answer to the Sistine Chapel and Lucas Cranach's kinky German nudes – the week in art

  • detail of Oliver Messel in his costume for Paris in Helen! by Cecil Beaton, 1932.

    Enchanted by exotic creatures: Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things review

May 2019

  • Baba Beaton, the photographer’s sister

    Cecil Beaton exhibition to put spotlight on Bright Young Things

    Glittering cast of 1920s and 30s bohemians will be subject of National Portrait Gallery show

October 2018

  • Woman wearing sheer evening gown. Courtesy of Old Visuals Everett Collection Mary Evans

    Night and Day: 1930s Fashion and Photographs – in pictures

    A new show at the Textile and Fashion Museum in London recalls classic garments from the 1930s. Meanwhile, Cecil Beaton: Thirty from the 30s explores the photographer’s works on fashion, film and fantasy

June 2017

  • Cecil Beaton’s Mick Jagger (1967).

    Anatomy of an artwork
    Cecil Beaton’s Mick Jagger: like a Rolling Stone from the 19th century

    This 1967 photograph is one of the first taken of Jagger by royal snapper Cecil Beaton, who later created some of the most famous images of the rock star

May 2017

  • Loretta Young, New York, 1938

    Bright young thing: the early work of Cecil Beaton – in pictures

    Cecil Beaton photographed the beautiful people of the decadent 1920s and 30s, from London to Hollywood, before turning a critical eye on the second world war

February 2016

  • Marilyn Monroe, playfully elegant at home, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1953

    Marilyn Monroe: sex symbol, model and muse – in pictures

    A new exhibition looks at Hollywood actor Marilyn Monroe through the lens of the artists she inspired and worked alongside

October 2015

  • Helmut Newton's portrait of Viviane F at the Hotel Volney, New York, 1972

    The Eternal Muse – in pictures

    Since 1992, Amedeo Turello has collected photographs of women by the likes of Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton and Henri Cartier-Bresson

January 2014

  • Pictures from the past
    The remains of German tanks by Cecil Beaton - a picture from the past

    Cecil Beaton was known as a fashion and portrait photographer, as well as a painter, interior designer, and an Academy award-winning stage and costume designer

September 2013

  • Affectionate note … the sketch Salvador Dalí drew for Wallis Simpson, the duchess of Windsor.

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Salvador Dalí's surreal dalliance with Nazism

    Jonathan Jones: Along with Wallis Simpson, the painter inhabited a brittle elite world that flirted with Hitler as if the fate of millions didn't matter

January 2013

  • Peter Schlesinger's photograph of David Hockney and Cecil Beaton

    My best shot
    Peter Schlesinger's best photograph: Cecil Beaton and David Hockney

    'David Hockney and I would go to Cecil Beaton's house a lot. He was witty, bitchy, fun – and a huge snob'

September 2012

  • Cecil Beaton's photograph of Eileen Dunne, aged three

    Oh what a lovely war: the other side of Cecil Beaton

    Imperial War Museum shows man best known for his pictures of the glamorous rich was also an important war photographer

August 2012

  • Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War

    Cecil Beaton's rare war photography – in pictures

  • Thomas Houseago at Hauser and Wirth

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Houseago's monstrous sculptures and Cecil Beaton on war – the week in art

May 2012

  • Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton taken by Cecil Beaton

    Cecil Beaton portrait of 'vulgar' Elizabeth Taylor up for auction

    Photograph of Taylor and Richard Burton taken at Rothschilds' chateau in 1971 expected to sell for £12,000

February 2012

  • Cecil Beaton's royal photography at the V&A

    Cecil Beaton: photographer to the young Queen Elizabeth II

    London's V&A compiles collection of royal portraits from 1939-1968 to help mark year of Queen's diamond jubilee

January 2012

  • Cecil Beaton: The New York Years; The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 – review

    Peter Conrad reports on a pair of mid-20th-century photography shows portraying the extremes of life in the Big Apple
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