Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits

By Roy C. Strong, Cecil Beaton, Peter. BEATON, Cecil & QUENNELL, et al.

Book Overview

Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits looks back in time to tell a very modern tale: the creation of a public image. Offering a fresh appraisal of Beaton's portraits of the British royal family, the book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500541442
• ISBN13: 9780500541449
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Splendid collection of portraits from one of the last century's great photographers

This book can be summed up quite succinctly; several hundred beautiful photographs, in a mixture of color and black-and-white, many in full-page format, of the members of Britain's Royal Family over some fifty years from the 1930's to the 1970's. The photographer is, of course, the famous Cecil Beaton, one of the last century's most famous lensmen, who is otherwise best known for his fashion photography and his design work on the movie of "My Fair Lady". Those wanting to start a collection of photography books of royalty would do well to make this volume one of their first acquisitions.