Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote

Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1965-1969
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This second volume of Cecil Beatonâ€™s unexpurgated diaries, from 1965 to 1969, catches this prolific photographer, artist, writer and designer at the height of his powers and at the center of everything. And no wonderâ€“as Oliver Smith, the set designer for My Fair Lady, said, he â€œhad more energy than anyone Iâ€™ve ever known.â€ Hugo Vickers, the author of Beatonâ€™s acclaimed biography, went back to the original manuscripts to find the unedited material in order to sidestep Beatonâ€™s endless retouching and has added, as with the first volume of unexpurgated Beaton, fascinating notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves.

Here is Beaton around the world, always in the hot spots of the moment: during the â€œswinging sixtiesâ€ in London, photographing the Queen, doing fashion shoots for British Vogue, and having lunch with NoÃ«l Coward and dinner with Cyril Connolly. He is in Morocco with the Rolling Stones; in the Greek islands for a cruise on CÃ©cile de Rothschildâ€™s yacht with his former lover, Garbo; in New York attending Truman Capoteâ€™s Black-and-White Ball; at work on Alan Jay Lerner and AndrÃ© Previnâ€™s musical Coco with Katharine Hepburn and on La Traviata with Anna Moffo at the Metâ€“he is even caught in the first big New York City blackout; he is at a dinner for President Lyndon Johnson and invited for tea and caviar with Jacqueline Onassis. Heâ€™s in Mougins to photograph Picasso, and then off to Monaco to see Princess Grace, among many other adventures.

The eccentric English aesthete Stephen Tennant called Beaton â€œa self-created genius.â€ Though he came out of the Edwardian era, Beaton was a modern polymath with a ferocious drive to be famous, and these diaries reflect his success at working with the most celebrated and creative figures. Reverential, testy, ebullient and acutely observed, they present us with the fascinating minutiae not only of one life but of the best part of a dazzling decade.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2004-11-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400042975

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2004-11-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400042975

Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1965-1969

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