Robert Lassam Jul 21, 2008
Patrick Lichfield, Don McCullin, Terence Donovan, Cecil Beaton, Linda McCartney and Angus McBean were others that received his encouragement. Lassam was not a brilliant photographer, but he had an eye for talent and a belief that photography was an important means of communication as well as an important art form. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Where Afghanistan's crossroads of cultures meet Jul 13, 2008
Among artists with work in the show are Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Robert Doisneau, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, and Irving Penn. 25 Sumner St., 011-44-20-7887-8888. (Boston Globe)
Portraits of the artist as icon Jun 22, 2008
They include some of the best-known in the medium's history: Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, Eliot Porter, Arnold Newman, Cecil Beaton, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh. Supremely, there was Alfred Stieglitz, American photography's patriarch and chief impresario. (Boston Globe)
Leibovitz: this time it's personal Jun 19, 2008
We were offered the Vanity Fair exhibition because of the strength of our research work," she said.Nairne added the NPG had a tradition of engaging intelligently with contemporary culture, ever since Roy Strong held an exhibition of Cecil Beaton portraits in 1968, and that any show on celebrity needed to be an examination of celebrity culture as well as a celebration of it. "Annie Leibovitz is asking questions of people. " Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 is at the National... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
All human life May 21, 2008
For all the stagey artificiality of his photographs of debutantes, society beauties and grande dames, Cecil Beaton managed to coax something wonderful from the likes of Wanda Baillie-Hamilton and Lady Bridget Poulett as they posed in a world of tin-foil, cardboard, balloons and cellophane ... At one extreme, we have the playacting of Cecil Beaton or Robert Mapplethorpe, with his man in a rubber suit and restrictive breathing apparatus. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
Also represented are Andre Kertesz, Florence Henri, Arnold Newman, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Herbert Bayer, Harold Edgerton, Cecil Beaton, Nan Goldin, Eve Arnold, the remarkable Germaine Krull (a terrific photo of painter and fellow race-car aficionado, Francis Picabia, from 1935) and the indisputably great and fearless Margaret Bourke-White (her Coffee Plantation Worker from 1936, a face that looks to be cast in bronze). One of the highlights of the... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Vanity and the fair go: who's in the frame? Feb 17, 2008
Currently on show at London's National Portrait Gallery, the collection features the work of some of the world's most legendary photographers including Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Helmut Newton, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton. The exhibition, which is due to open at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra in May next year, is divided into two distinct periods. (Sydney Morning Herald)
The fashion forecast Dec 30, 2007
There is work by Thirties photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Man Ray and Edward Steichen, and the magazine's revival in the Eighties means that new superstar snappers such as Herb Ritts and Nan Goldin are also represented. A special sub-exhibition focuses on VF's most famous photographer, queen of the lens Annie Leibovitz. (Guardian Unlimited)
Vanity Fair photo archive to go on display Nov 20, 2007
According to the NPG director, Sandy Nairne, "It is a particularly extraordinary opportunity to access the early vintage prints in the archive, by photographers such as Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton. The early years of Vanity Fair are dominated by portraits of the great by the great. There's a roster of fantastic artists.". Vanity Fair had been a British society magazine founded in 1860, but the American magazine publisher Cond; Nast bought the name in 1913 and hired the cultivated editor... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Corgis lead well-read Queen on Bennett literary odyssey Aug 11, 2007
Though she has been painted and photographed ad infinitum by painters and photographers from Philip de Laszlo to Rolf Harris, and Cecil Beaton to Annie Liebovitz, Lucian Freud's portrait, unveiled in 2001, is the outstanding masterpiece. Other coverage. (Guardian Unlimited)
In the Spirit of Jazz Aug 8, 2007
" Shooting 35mm, Mr. Buzash experiments with filters and also the development of the film, leaving it in the chemicals longer than purists might. This gives the images a grainy, high-contrast quality, de-emphasizing the details and actual physicality of the person in the shot. Twentieth century British photographer Bill Brandt employed a similar technique, aiming to capture the essence of his famous subjects, such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Beaton and Benjamin Britten. Interestingly, Mr. Buzash... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Leibovitz's Royal Photo Is Formal, Artificial: Review by Martin Gayford May 4, 2007
Leibovitz has said she wanted to follow the example of Cecil Beaton, a prolific royal photographer of the postwar period. She has done just that. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Leibovitz unveils Queen portrait May 3, 2007
Shortly after being asked to photograph the Queen, Ms Leibovitz said she was likely to take inspiration from Cecil Beaton who photographed the Queen Mother at the palace. "I like tradition. Cecil Beaton's pictures - they're very important to me," she said. (BBC News)
Celebrity snapper Leibovitz turns her lens on the Queen May 2, 2007
" Ms Leibovitz is well known for her photographs of celebrities including a naked John Lennon hugging a fully clothed Yoko Ono and a naked pregnant Demi Moore. Shortly after being asked to photograph the Queen, Ms Leibovitz said she was likely to take inspiration from Cecil Beaton who photographed the Queen Mother at the palace. "I like tradition. Cecil Beaton's pictures - they're very important to me," she said. "I feel like it's a documentation and want to take a very simple portrait. (BBC News -- UK)
The New Look that swept away the postwar blues Mar 16, 2007
Sixty years after Dior's look was unveiled, the show will bring together more than 100 dresses along with archive material, film footage and photographs by Cecil Beaton and Richard Avedon. The exhibition will focus on the great couturiers of Paris and London, who influenced a decade's worth of style and whose feminine silhouettes were copied across Europe and America. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Jonathan Glancey on surrealist buildings Mar 5, 2007
Cecil Beaton decorated the top floor of his Wiltshire country house, Ashcombe, with Jean Cocteau sconces in the form of human arms reaching out from the wall, and papier-mache versions of Victorian chairs. Champion of surrealism Edward James did his colourful thing at Monkton House, his West Sussex hunting lodge, with its dog-print stair-carpet, breathing wall, Dal; furniture and screaming colours. (Guardian Unlimited)
The pain behind performance: Secret torment of Margot Fonteyn Feb 6, 2007
The Furses' friends included Cecil Beaton, the society photographer, Stephen Tennant, the aristocrat, and Constant Lambert, the composer and conductor who was the music director for the Sadler's Wells Ballet. But she never reciprocates Furse's passion and it becomes increasingly obvious from the letters that her reserve stems from her love for someone else. (Independent)
