Cecil Beaton's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 2 USD to 125,609 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. ... Beaton wore many hats as an ...

“People say, ‘Beaton was such a snob,’ ” Immordino Vreeland says. “He was a snob, but he was so much more than that.” Indeed, Beaton was a prolific photographer, shooting luminaries ...

The massive new volume “Beaton: Photographs,” out next week from Abrams, presents an expansive chronological survey of Cecil Beaton’s career, with images spanning more than half a century ...

Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was a bird of rare and luxuriant plumage. “I set out to become a rabid aesthete,” he once said, and in that aim he succeeded hands down. His set designs and costumes ...

They were Cecil Beaton’s. If I were to make a list of the Beaton photographs that have influenced me, ... A pointed hat pulls her hair back and a pierrot ruff frames her remarkable face.

Cecil Beaton, after being fired from American Vogue in 1938, on charges of anti-Semitism, ... taking photos of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation with his top hat stuffed with sandwiches.

It isn't a hyperbole to say that Cecil Beaton helped define the aesthetics of the entire 20th century. When we imagine romance, beauty, Hollywood glamour, and even royalty, we are imagining Beaton.

One wonders what Beaton would make of “Love, Cecil.” Vreeland’s film certainly attempts to touch on its subject’s inner life: the emotional impact of the suicide, in 1933, of Beaton’s ...

Film Review: ‘Love, Cecil’ The life and images of Cecil Beaton merge into a magical slide show of a documentary that captures one of the greatest of all photographers.

Narrated by Rupert Everett, “Love, Cecil” is a suitably devoted portrait of the Academy Award-winning painter, photographer, designer, dandy, author and self-professed social climber Cecil Beaton.