Cecil Beaton was a celebrity portrait photographer who revelled in his own celebrity. Here are some of my favourites of his portraits.
Katharine Hepburn by Cecil Beaton, Vanity Fair, 1935
In his 1937 Scrapbook Beaton said of Hepburn, "...in close proximity she's very like any exceedingly animated & delightful hockey mistress at a Physical Training College."
Irving Penn by Cecil Beaton, 1950. A wonderful portrait of another great photographer.
Kay Kendall by Cecil Beaton, 1957
Isaiah Berlin by Cecil Beaton, 1955
Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas by Cecil Beaton, 1945. With their dog Basket.
Cecil Beaton's wonderful shot of Truman Capote in Morocco, 1949.
Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton, 1956. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Cecil Beaton's remarkable portrait of Audrey Hepburn in costume for My Fair Lady, Vogue, 1963.
Jean-Paul Sartre by Cecil Beaton, c. 1946.
Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison at Covent Garden Market, 1956. Though most of Cecil Beaton's portraits were made in his studio, this is one of his greatest photographs.
Vivien Leigh by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1946.
Greta Garbo by Cecil Beaton, 1946.
Beaton went to Hollywood in 1931, with the main goal of seeing Garbo. He only managed to come across her once at a party. In 1946 they became great friends, & probably lovers. Beaton said later that he once proposed marriage.
Garbo laughs! I love Cecil Beaton's informal photographs from 1948.
Cecil Beaton photographs Marilyn Monroe at the Ambassador Hotel in New York. A photo by Ed Pfizenmaier, February 22, 1956.
A great portrait of Cecil Beaton by Erwin Blumenfeld, from the 1940s.
Recommended: Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things, 2020
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