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Beaton in the Sixties : The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1965-1969 by Cecil Beaton (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400042976

ISBN-139781400042975

eBay Product ID (ePID)30527271

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeaton in the Sixties : the Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1965-1969

Number of Pages544 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicGeneral, Artists, Architects, Photographers

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorCecil Beaton

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight34.1 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-048296

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal770/.92 B

SynopsisThis second volume of Cecil Beaton'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 wonderas Oliver Smith, the set designer forMy Fair Lady, said, he "had more energy than anyone I've ever known." Hugo Vickers, the author of Beaton's acclaimed biography, went back to the original manuscripts to find the unedited material in order to sidestep Beaton's endless retouching and has added, as with the firstvolume 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 "swinging sixties" in London, photographing the Queen, doing fashion shoots for BritishVogue, and having lunch with Noël Coward and dinner with Cyril Connolly. He is in Morocco with the Rolling Stones; in the Greek islands for a cruise on Cécile de Rothschild's yacht with his former lover, Garbo; in New York attending Truman Capote's Black-and-White Ball; at work on Alan Jay Lerner and André Previn's musicalCocowith Katharine Hepburn and onLa Traviatawith Anna Moffo at the Methe 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. He'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 "a self-created genius." 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.

LC Classification NumberTR140.B4.A3 2004