Cecil Beaton
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 44 years ago |
Date of birth | January 14,1904 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Hampstead |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | January 18,1980 |
Died | Broad Chalke |
United Kingdom | |
Artworks | Nancy Cunard |
On view | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
SCAD Museum of Art | |
Job | Photographer |
Writer | |
Furniture Designer | |
Painter | |
Costume Designer | |
Scenic Designer | |
Education | Harrow School |
St John's College, Cambridge | |
Heath Mount School | |
St Cyprian's School | |
St John's College | |
Cambridge | |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Production Design |
Academy Award for Best Costume Design | |
Rest place | Broad Chalke |
Wiltshire | |
Siblings | Baba Beaton |
Nancy Beaton | |
Reginald Beaton | |
Parents | Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton |
Etty Sissons | |
Works | Nancy Cunard |
Hal Burton | |
Footballers | |
Movies/Shows | Love, Cecil |
Beaton by Bailey | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 459245 |
The Happy Years: Diaries 1944-48
Theatre of War
The Wandering Years, 1922-39
Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War
The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
The Parting Years 1963-74
The Years Between 1939-44: Cecil Beaton's Diaries
The Restless Years: Diaries, 1955-63
Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926-1974
Portraits
Cecil Beaton
Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1965-1969
Portrait of New York
My Bolivian Aunt: A Memoir
British Photographers
Chinese Diary & Album
Queen Elizabeth II: Portraits by Cecil Beaton
Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease
The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day
First Garden
CECIL BEATON'S CAMERA.
The Parting Years, Diaries 1963-1974
The Royal Anniversary Book of Days
The Photographs of Sir Cecil Beaton
The Royal Photographs by Sir Cecil Beaton: An Exhibition in the Photography Galleries, Henry Cole Wing, Victoria and Albert Museum, 17 September 1987-1 February 1988
Spencer in the Shipyard
Oliver Messel, an Exhibition Held at the Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, 22 June - 30 October 1983
The Glass of Fashion
Beaton Portraits
The Book of Beauty
Cecil Beaton Life story
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
King Charles III message marks anniversary of Elizabeth II's death
... The formal colour photograph was taken by Cecil Beaton on 16 October 1968 and has not been released until now...
The Coronation: Six takeaways from a historic day
... Cecil Beaton s portrait of Queen Elizabeth will be hard to beat...
Queen Elizabeth: Royal Mail issues special stamps in memory of monarch
... One of the first-class stamps has a photo taken by royal photographer Cecil Beaton in 1968, where she is standing in her admiral s cloak with her head tilted to the left...
The Coronation: Six takeaways from a historic day
By Katie RazzallCulture and media editor, Bbc News
Millions of eyes were on Britain, but what message did The Coronation send out about The country, aside from confirming prejudices about our dreadful weather? This is my view from The Sofa - Six takeaways from a historic day.
A visual spectacle of arcane traditionsWe knew this would be a real spectacle, but from my Front Row seat (in my sitting room) much of it still felt from a bygone era. This Was Britain with all its pomp on show. Golden carriages, weighty robes of state and jewel-encrusted crowns.
It's hardly surprising there were so many arcane traditions, in a ceremony that dates back 1,000 years at Westminster Abbey . But Who Knew , until Coronation day, that swords have names?
The Sword of State and The Sword of Offering - More about them later - The Sword of Temporal Justice, The Sword of Spiritual Justice, The Sword of Mercy.
Or that Princess Anne would be known as The Gold-Stick-in-Waiting.
Or that there are bracelets of sincerity and wisdom?
Of course it felt removed from Britain in 2023, in The Middle of a cost of living crisis.
But as The Queen of grunge, Courtney Love Cobain tweeted, she was " loving The religion & strangeness & pageantry".
And so were many others. This kind of display is what distinguishes Britain from The rest of The World . We're good at it, aren't we?
Diversity and inclusionThe historian David Olusoga said there is an argument The Ceremony makes us " More aware of how ancient, how, in some ways, unlike The country, these traditions are".
But among The Tradition , effort had been made to ensure modern Britain was also being reflected.
For me that began with The Blue , almost punk-like plumage of The horses pulling The Carriage in The King 's procession from Buckingham Palace . Although in fact woven braids date back to Queen Victoria 's coronation.
We saw it in The inclusion of The King and Queen's blended family in The Service . In The representatives of other faiths.
In The sceptre carried by National Treasure Baroness Floella Benjamin .
In The Women bishops who were involved in a coronation for The First Time ever.
There was a message of diversity and inclusion that had been carefully crafted, but nonetheless felt sincere.
Music fit for a (musical) KingAnother first were The Girl choristers.
Their voices rang out as King Charles and Queen Camilla walked into The abbey.
" I Was Glad" has been performed at every coronation since 1626. I've always marvelled at Sir Hubert Parry 's version, composed for Edward Vii in 1902.
Afterwards, Gareth Malone , who will conduct The Coronation Choir at The Concert at Windsor on Sunday Night , told me " you'll never hear it that well performed ever again".
For hours on Saturday, The abbey was filled with simply wonderful music.
Malone's highlights also included The " beautiful haunting harmonies" of The new composition by Paul Mealor of Kyrie Eleison , sung in Welsh (The First Time that language has been heard in a coronation service) by The Opera star Sir Bryn Terfel and The " timeless, spiritual" Byzantine Chant Ensemble, in Greek.
And Handel's Zadok The Priest at The Time of The anointing was a particularly electric moment.
From a King with a lifelong passion for music, we were treated to a composition arc, from Orlando Gibbons in The Elizabethan period through William Byrd and Handel to Vaughan Williams and on to composers of today.
King Charles personally commissioned 12 new pieces for his Coronation, including a show-stopping performance by The eight-strong gospel Ascension Choir.
The artistry on show was breath taking.
Contrasts with 1953In 1953, as a Little Girl in Lancashire, my mum watched The Coronation at The home of A Family friend who had got a TV for The occasion. By televising The Event , The new Queen Elizabeth heralded in The Age Of television. Some 20 million people saw The live broadcast.
Now 70 years on, we watched a coronation in full Colour - and The Ways we interacted with The Event were transformed. Not just TV, but live streaming online, clips turned around on Social Media , radio with and without commentary, memes. Smartphones have made us all photographers and there will be reams of footage Out There .
We'll also be getting official coronation photographs by Hugo Burnand.
Cecil Beaton 's portrait of Queen Elizabeth will be hard to beat. That iconic photograph combined The Power of majesty and The optimism placed in The young queen.
King Charles is The oldest monarch ever crowned in The abbey. He doesn't hold The hopes of The Nation in quite The Way His Mother did in The More reverential 1950s.
Not everyone was gluedNot everyone was interested in this coronation. That's obvious.
Central London was heaving with both British and foreign enthusiasts. Not even The Rain was going to stop them enjoying themselves in their thousands.
But Republican demonstrators also marched down Piccadilly as The Service continued - with dozens arrested, which some accused of being heavy-handed.
A recent poll for The Bbc 's Panorama programme suggests there is broad support for keeping The Monarchy but below The headline figures it showed shifts in Attitude - with some clear popularity challenges for The new king at The start of his reign, particularly with Young People .
And we've had three royal occasions in less than a Year - The Platinum Jubilee, The Queen 's funeral and now a coronation. There may be some fatigue.
Penny Mordaunt , sword bearer extraordinaireFor many of us watching At Home , Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt was The standout star. She carried The (exceptionally heavy-looking) Sword of State into The abbey as Lord President of The Privy Council, The First Time A Woman has performed that role in a coronation.
She previously said she'd been doing press-ups to prepare.
When she swapped it much later for The jewelled Sword of Offering , The Nation breathed a sigh of relief.
As, presumably, did her biceps.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com