“Never Being Boring” - a brilliant article in The Stockholm Review about Cecil Beaton -
“Never Being Boring” - a brilliant article in The Stockholm Review about Cecil Beaton - a British genius photographer, an upper class pretender blessed with talent, humour and fashion sense. http://thestockholmreview.blogspot.lt/search?q=cecil+beaton“To listen to Beaton describe in strictly visual terms a person or room or landscape is to hear a recitation that can be hilarious or brutal or very beautiful, but will always certainly be brilliant.A person sitting for Beaton has a sense of slightly drifting in space – of not being photographed but painted, and painted by a casual, barely visible presence. But Beaton is there, oh yes. For all his quiet tread he is one of the most on-the-spot people alive: his visual intelligence is genius – Truman Capote”.Cecil Beaton with Anita Loos in California, December 1929. -- source link