Time Exposure. Cecil Beaton
Time Exposure. Cecil Beaton
With Commentary and Captions by Peter Quennell
Second edition (of Time Exposure) with many new photographs
BT Batsford. London 1946. 136pp.
With scarce dust jacket (small part of the back dust jacket is missing. see photo)
The photographs shown in this volume were produced between 1923 and 1945 and cover topics from personalities, beauties, travel, abstract/environment to ballet and theatre, royalty as well as politicians and images of WWII.
Many of these photographs were taken specially for Vogue Magazine. Several fascinating fashion images are staged in surrealist style.
This book shows a large number of photos in different settings, of different subjects and many personalities of the time. Quite exceptional in its breadth of topics.
Amongst personalities shown are: Graham Sutherland, Benjamin Britton, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, H G Wells, Sickert, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Raoul Dufy, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Lauren Olivier, Johnnie Weismuller, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Katherine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Arturo Toscanini, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Churchill, Eden, Mountbatten, Rex Whistler, Siegfried Sassoon, ….
On several pages of this book a water stain at the bottom of the page is noticeable.
Time Exposure. Cecil Beaton
With Commentary and Captions by Peter Quennell
Second edition (of Time Exposure) with many new photographs
BT Batsford. London 1946. 136pp.
With scarce dust jacket (small part of the back dust jacket is missing. see photo)
The photographs shown in this volume were produced between 1923 and 1945 and cover topics from personalities, beauties, travel, abstract/environment to ballet and theatre, royalty as well as politicians and images of WWII.
Many of these photographs were taken specially for Vogue Magazine. Several fascinating fashion images are staged in surrealist style.
This book shows a large number of photos in different settings, of different subjects and many personalities of the time. Quite exceptional in its breadth of topics.
Amongst personalities shown are: Graham Sutherland, Benjamin Britton, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, H G Wells, Sickert, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Raoul Dufy, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Lauren Olivier, Johnnie Weismuller, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Katherine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Arturo Toscanini, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Churchill, Eden, Mountbatten, Rex Whistler, Siegfried Sassoon, ….
On several pages of this book a water stain at the bottom of the page is noticeable.
Time Exposure. Cecil Beaton
With Commentary and Captions by Peter Quennell
Second edition (of Time Exposure) with many new photographs
BT Batsford. London 1946. 136pp.
With scarce dust jacket (small part of the back dust jacket is missing. see photo)
The photographs shown in this volume were produced between 1923 and 1945 and cover topics from personalities, beauties, travel, abstract/environment to ballet and theatre, royalty as well as politicians and images of WWII.
Many of these photographs were taken specially for Vogue Magazine. Several fascinating fashion images are staged in surrealist style.
This book shows a large number of photos in different settings, of different subjects and many personalities of the time. Quite exceptional in its breadth of topics.
Amongst personalities shown are: Graham Sutherland, Benjamin Britton, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, H G Wells, Sickert, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Raoul Dufy, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Lauren Olivier, Johnnie Weismuller, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Katherine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Arturo Toscanini, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Churchill, Eden, Mountbatten, Rex Whistler, Siegfried Sassoon, ….
On several pages of this book a water stain at the bottom of the page is noticeable.