Craig ConstantineApr 18, 2016

Assert integrity of purpose

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer. The creatures of the common place. The slaves of the ordinary.

~ Cecil Beaton

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#CecilBeaton #Motivation #Quotes
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine
BornToBeBlueUnderABadSignApr 8

"Un album di ritagli di un tecnico di camera oscura, contenente fotografie inedite appartenute a Lee Miller e Cecil Beaton, è stato riportato alla luce e acquisito dalle Bodleian Libraries dell’Università di Oxford."

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/

#photography #fotografia #LeeMiller #CecilBeaton

Darkroom Assistant's Scrapbook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton

It's utterly fascinating.

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Unofficial PetaPixel BotApr 8
Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News
Darkroom Assistant's Scrapbook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton

It's utterly fascinating.

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Unofficial PetaPixel BotApr 1
Marilyn Monroe and the Photographers Who Captured Her https://petapixel.com/2026/04/01/marilyn-monroe-and-the-photographers-who-captured-her/ #nationalportraitgallery #portraitphotography #alfredeisenstaedt #marilynmonroe #richardavedon #20thcentury #cecilbeaton #andywarhol #exhibition #Features #News #icon
Marilyn Monroe and the Photographers Who Captured Her

They described her as the best subject they ever had.

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Unofficial PetaPixel BotDec 13
Stunning Images Reveal How Cecil Beaton Shaped Fashion Photography https://petapixel.com/2025/12/13/stunning-images-reveal-how-cecil-beaton-shaped-fashion-photography/ #nationalportraitgallerylondon #portraitphotographer #fashionphotography #cecilbeaton #Features
Stunning Images Reveal How Cecil Beaton Shaped Fashion Photography

The exhibition features over 250 items.

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Sarah MatthewsNov 4, 2025
I’m going to an audiodescribed event for this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London in a couple of weeks, so this was a great read, with some excellent book recommendations at the end #art #cecilBeaton #Vogue #photography #audiodescription #blind https://sarramanning.substack.com/p/why-cecil-beatons-fashionable-world?r=1ri3ym&triedRedirect=true
Why Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World does not turn for me

(Plus ten Beaton adjacent books to read...)

Sarra Manning is reading, writing, procrastinating
Old walkerOct 21, 2025
Detail from a portrait of Sir Cecil Beaton in 1937 (aged 32-33 years) by Christian Bérard, oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London, England. Beaton liked this painting so much that he gave it pride of place in his homes and bequeathed it to the NPG on his death in 1980. October 2025.

#portrait #cecilbeaton #nationalportraitgallery #npg #london #england #christianbérard
Jonathan EmmesediOct 11, 2025

Gary Cooper in 1929

Image: The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, London

#Photography #CecilBeaton #GaryCooper

Lifestyle | The Guardian USOct 7, 2025
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/08/cecil-beatons-fashionable-world-review-national-portrait-gallery-king-vogue #NationalPortraitGallery #Artanddesign #Lifeandstyle #CecilBeaton #Exhibitions #Photography #MyFairLady #Fashion #Culture #Film
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker

The ‘King of Vogue’ was a desperate social climber and the world on view here seems constricted and parochial. Still, his backdrops are fabulous – usually more interesting than his subjects

The Guardian
Culture | The Guardian USOct 7, 2025
Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/07/audrey-hepburn-salvador-dali-cecil-beaton-in-pictures-national-portrait-gallery #NationalPortraitGallery #ElizabethTaylor #AudreyHepburn #MarilynMonroe #Artanddesign #SalvadorDalí #FrancisBacon #CecilBeaton #Photography #MyFairLady #Culture #Film
Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things – in pictures

A new exhibition, featuring images of Hollywood stars and war photography, shows why the ‘King of Vogue’ was one of the visionary forces of the British 20th century

the Guardian