Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton de nome completo Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (Londres, 14 de janeiro de 1904 — Wiltshire, 18 de janeiro de 1980) foi um fotógrafo inglês de moda, retrato e guerra, e figurinista britânico. Venceu o Oscar de melhor figurino na edição de 1959 pelo filme Gigi e na edição de 1965 por My Fair Lady.

Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton
Nome completo	Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Nascimento	14 de janeiro de 1904 Londres, Reino Unido
Nacionalidade	britânico
Morte	18 de janeiro de 1980 (76 anos) Wiltshire, Reino Unido
Ocupação	Figurinista
Oscares da Academia
Melhor Figurino: Gigi (1958) My Fair Lady (1964)

Publicações

Obras selecionadas

• The Book of Beauty (Duckworth, 1930)
• Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook (Batsford, 1937)
• Cecil Beaton's New York (Batsford, 1938)
• My Royal Past (Batsford, 1939)
• History Under Fire com James Pope-Hennessy (Batsford, 1941)
• Time Exposure com Peter Quennell (Batsford, 1941)
• Air of Glory (HMSO, 1941)
• Winged Squadrons (Hutchinson, 1942)
• Near East (Batsford, 1943)
• British Photographers (William Collins, 1944)
• Far East (Batsford, 1945)
• Cecil Beaton's Indian Album (Batsford, 1945–6, republicado como Indian Diary and Album, OUP, 1991)
• Cecil Beaton's Chinese Album (Batsford, 1945-6)
• India (Thacker & Co., 1945)
• Portrait of New York (Batsford, 1948)
• Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease (Batsford, 1949)
• Photobiography (Odhams, 1951)
• Ballet (Allan Wingate, 1951)
• Persona Grata com Kenneth Tynan (Allan Wingate, 1953)
• The Glass of Fashion (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954)
• It Gives Me Great Pleasure (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956)
• The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1957)
• Japanese (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959)
• Quail in Aspic: The Life Story of Count Charles Korsetz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962)
• Images com um prefácio de Edith Sitwell e uma introdução de Christopher Isherwood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
• Royal Portraits com uma introdução de Peter Quennell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
• Cecil Beaton's 'Fair Lady' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964)
• The Best of Beaton com uma introdução de Truman Capote (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
• My Bolivian Aunt: A Memoir (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971)

Diários

• Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1922–39 The Wandering Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961)
• Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1939–44 The Years Between (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965)
• Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1944–48 The Happy Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972)
• Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1948–55 The Strenuous Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
• Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1955–63 The Restless Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)
• Cecil Beaton's Diaries: 1963–74 The Parting Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978)
• Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926–1974 editado por Richard Buckle (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979)
• The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as they were written com uma introdução de Hugo Vickers (Orion, 2003)
• Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries com uma introdução de Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)

Fotografias

• Sir William Walton, 1926
• Stephen Tennant, 1927
• Lady Diana Cooper, 1928
• Charles James (designer), 1929
• Lillian Gish, 1929
• Oliver Messel, 1929
• Lord David Cecil, 1930
• Lady Georgia Sitwell, 1930
• Gary Cooper, 1931
• Molly Fink, 1926
• Pablo Picasso, 1933
• Dürrüşehvar Sultan, 1933
• Marlene Dietrich, 1935
• Salvador Dalí, 1936
• Natalie Paley, 1936
• Aldous Huxley, 1936
• Daisy Fellowes, 1937
• Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania, 1937
• Lady Ursula Manners, 1937
• Queen Sita Devi of Kapurthala, 1940
• Bomb Victim (Eileen Dunne), 1940
• Winston Churchill, 1940
• Graham Sutherland, 1940
• Charles de Gaulle, 1941
• Walter Sickert, 1942
• Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, 1943
• John Pope-Hennessy, 1945
• Isabel Jeans, 1945
• Greta Garbo, 1946
• Yul Brynner, 1946
• Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen of Iran
• Vivien Leigh, 1947
• Marlon Brando, 1947
• Truman Capote, 1948–1949
• Bobby Henrey, 1948
• Countess Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, 1951
• Duchess of Windsor, 1951
• Vita Sackville-West, 1952
• C. Z. Guest, 1952
• Graham Greene, 1953
• Elizabeth II's Coronation, 1953
• Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 1953
• Elizabeth Taylor, 1954
• Grace Kelly, 1954
• Mona von Bismarck, 1955
• Bernard Berenson, 1955
• Joan Crawford, 1956
• Mrs. Charles (Jayne Wrightsman), 1956
• Maria Callas, 1956
• Dame Edith Sitwell, 1956
• Colin Wilson, 1956
• Marilyn Monroe, 1956
• Leslie Caron, 1957
• Dolores Guinness, 1958
• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1960
• Albert Finney, 1961
• Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1962
• Lee Radziwill, 1962
• Karen Blixen, 1962
• Rudolf Nureyev, 1963
• Audrey Hepburn, 1964
• Margot Fonteyn, 1965
• Jacqueline Kennedy, 1965
• Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 1965
• Jamie Wyeth, 1966
• Georgia O'Keeffe, 1966
• Andy Warhol, 1967
• Twiggy, 1967
• Mick Jagger, 1968
• Katharine Hepburn, 1969
• Barbra Streisand, 1969
• Gloria Guinness, 1970
• Hubert de Givenchy, 1970
• Mae West, 1970
• David Hockney, 1970
• Jane Birkin, 1971
• Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 1971
• Marisa Berenson as Luisa Casati, 1971
• Jacqueline de Ribes, 1971
• Pauline de Rothschild, 1972
• Tina Chow, 1973
• Gilbert & George, 1974
• Inès de La Fressange, 1978
• Paloma Picasso, 1978
• Caroline of Monaco, 1978
• Olimpia de Rothschild, 1978
• Dayle Haddon, 1979

Referências

Ligações externas

• Cecil Beaton. no IMDb.
• Theatre Archive University of Bristol
• «Selection of photographs by Cecil Beaton». Victoria and Albert Museum. 29 de julho de 2015 
• Cecil Beaton textile designs designed in 1948 for Zika Ascher
• Cecil Beaton entrevista na BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 01 de fevereiro de 1980

Arquivos

• Papers of Sir Cecil Beaton (1922-1980, 38 caixas de arquivo) no St John's College, Cambridge
• Cecil Beaton Papers (1938–1979, 1 caixa de arquivo) na Princeton University Library
• Cecil Beaton Studio Archive na Sotheby's Picture Library