CECIL BEATON
PORTRAITS
exhibition of the National Portrait Gallery, London
KunstHausWien
7. October 2004 – 9. January 2005

foto: CECIL BEATON: Greta Garbo, 1946. Cecil Beaton´s Studio. Archive at Sotheby´s. Courtesy Sotheby´s

Cecil Beaton, born 1904 in London, is one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton had many talents: he was illustrator, painter, writer and diarist, designed sets and costumes for film, theatre and opera. His portraits of well-known faces of fashion, literature and film made him famous. next>>>