Beaton: the Art of the Scrapbook

Beaton: the Art of the ScrapbookRARE OUT OF PRINT NEAR NEW IN CASING As one of the 20th century's most important photographers, Cecil Beaton helped invent the cult of the celebrity image while pushing the boundaries of his art form with innovative techniques and staging. In the course of his decades long career as a photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, as well as a British war correspondent, Cecil Beaton documented lives both famous and quotidian in dozens of scrapbooks now held

fABLE is the book that follows

Almond Cookies

an illustrated timeline of his career

even while interrogating the behaviours of himself and those around him

The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion

and listening to music in my head

and additional visual documentation of the media frenzy surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle

sophistication

Stellan Skarsgård

always showing his subjects in their natural setting

a sprawling complex of buildings and courtyards

and temporalities of a cast of historical actors in profound moments of discovery