Born #OnThisDay in 1904 – photographer Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton
image credit: Cecil Beaton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

 Fashion photographer

Portrait photographer

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image credit: Cecil Beaton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

War photographer

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image credit: Cecil Beaton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Diarist

Painter

Interior designer

Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE

14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980

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3 comments

    1. There are loads more of his photos on Wikicommons from his war photographer period and a huge set of fascinating photos he took in the Tyneside shipyards. A massive contrast to the fashion and celebrity photos but really interesting. http://bit.ly/2r6LM7k

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