The Best of Beaton

[Cecil Beaton]

The Best of Beaton is an anthology of Beaton’s “best” photographs from 1922 to date. Reproductions of over three hundred photographs, presented chronologically, provide an objective overview of a hugely-varied, successful and influential photographic career. Chapters include ‘First Stages’, ‘Early Cinema’, ‘Travel’, ‘Fashions of the late Twenties and Thirties’, ‘Branches, Stalks and Stems’, ‘Creative People’, ‘The Performing Artists’, ‘War’, ‘War Fashions and After’, ‘Time Sequences’, ‘Personages’, ‘Charivari’, and ‘The Future Past’. Each chapter begins with a short commentary text by Beaton; pithy and witty stories of how the pictures were made, the sitters, the locations and the technical challenges. Truman Capote provides a “glowing tribute” in his introduction.



Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Truman Capote. Macmillan. New York. 1968. First American edition. Hardback, quarto; black cloth-bound boards, silver title to spine, dust jacket. 248 pages. 300 black-and-white and 8 colour images. English. 310 x 235mm. 1.6kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear to jacket and boards, slight wrinkling in a couple of areas to jacket laminate, price-clipped; previous owner's name to front pastedown (behind flap), slight creasing to half-title, light browning to page edges.