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Jun 14, 2023 · From Audrey Hepburn to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe to cultural figures like Truman Capote and Mick Jagger, Cecil Beaton photos combined the splendour of historic royal portraiture with the intimacy of photography to immortalise celebrities and even transform the reputation of the British Royal Family.
- A royal invitation. The telephone rang. "This is the lady-in-waiting speaking. The Queen wants to know if you will photograph her tomorrow afternoon" ... In choosing me to take her photographs, the Queen made a daring innovation.
- The next generation. On 14 November 1948 Princess Elizabeth gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles Philip Arthur George. At her mother's suggestion, the Princess chose Beaton to photograph her newborn son.
- The Coronation. On the morning of 2 June 1953, three million people lined the streets between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey to witness the process of the Gold State Coach.
- The 1968 sitting. In the summer of 1968, Beaton photographed the Queen in anticipation of his forthcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. He felt anxious before the sitting, writing in his diary
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
Sir Cecil Beaton was one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. His association with the British Royal Family spanned across six decades, making him one of the most represented portrait photographers in the Royal Photograph Collection.
Photographer, designer and writer Cecil Beaton was one of the leading British photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's early studio portraits of debutantes and celebrities often involved elaborate theatrical backdrops, and helped define the image of the 'Bright young thing'.
May 31, 2004 · Beaton captures 50 years of fashion, art and celebrity, from the Sitwells in the 1920s to the Rolling Stones in the late 1960s. Definitive portraits of 20th century celebrities are shown alongside more sombre works from his time as a war photographer.
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The V&A holds the archive of royal portraits by renowned fashion photographer Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 – 80), who became court photographer to the British Royal Family in 1937, and continued to photograph them for the next three generations, including taking the official portraits for Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953. Read more.
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