Cecil Beaton Research Paper

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Photographer Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton was a very well known fashion photographer throughout all the 20's and 30's. Beaton was on the 14th of January, 1904 in London, England. He died on January 18th, 1980 at the age of 76 in Wiltshire, England. He lived primarily in England his entire life. Cecil was said to have been arristlcy inclined, he was a very good painter and singer as a young boy. Beaton's love for photography started when he was small at the age of eleven, when he received a camera on his birthday, it was a Kodak 3A folding camera. From there he started off by taking pictures of his two younger sisters Nancy and Barbara, he would ask his mother as well, he would dress them up in costumes and use them as his models. Cecil went to the University of Cambridge St. John's college, but he didn't enjoy the educational aspect of school, he put most of his energy into …show more content…

He is famously known for doing the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and his bride Wallis Simpson, which he capture beautifully in black and white, he made the pictures look whimsical and romantic the way he captured them. He also did Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, and continued to photography all of the Royal family until the year he died, which was in 1980. Though he was more well known for his work in fashion photography, there was a time during World War II that Cecil photographed the devastation WWII brought to European cities. From 1940-45 he captured over 7,000 images in England, China, and even Africa. Amongst these rare photos he's most famously known for a picture of a 3 year old named Eileen Dunne who's sitting in a hospital bed after a raid, with her head wrapped and a teddy bear in her arms, this image was on the cover of Life Magazine. Beaton got a chance to show the world that he wasn't just a fashion photographer but that he could also capture serious issues in his

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