Cecil beaton autobiography books
Cecil beaton autobiography books
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Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography
7th ed.
ISBN-10 184212613X
ISBN-13 9781842126134
At approximately 620 pages of text, this was a real slog.
One star for the author, 4 stars for Beaton's diaries ... for this is essentially slabs of the diaries strung together with wooden narration.
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There is no light and shade. This is a chronological walk through a man's life with no overview and little interpretation or explanation. Episodes get dropped in without context. A classic example: On p.406 in my copy it says, “He went to Nikko in the snow and had perhaps his most successful Japanese day.” That's it.
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What made the day successful? Was it the company, the lack of company, the photos he took, or was he able to have a day without his camera, or something completely other? This book won't tell you.
It would have been good to get a picture of how Beaton worked.
He seemed to use relatively s