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Cecil Beaton's Diaries - 1922 - 1939: The Wandering Years: Sir Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton's Diaries - 1922 - 1939: The Wandering Years: Sir Cecil Beaton
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Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 –1980): English fashion, portrait and war photographer; painter; diarist and Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer. In short, a cultural icon. For almost as long as he could write, Cecil Beaton kept his diaries. They accumulated year after year, and from a formidable pile of notebooks he extracted enough to fill six volumes. Like any young man, he had his set-backs; growing up in a much-changed England post-World War I; differences with his devoted but at times unsympathetic family; his doubts and failures; he describes his friendships with famous men and women, artists, writers, actors, film stars and celebrated socialites; the friends of his youth and childhood, his parents and relations against the background of an ordinary English household. This first volume covers seventeen years from 1922 to 1939 and is a fascinating and disarming book covering the fascinating times of World War II and the Golden Age of Hollywood. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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1st Edition; previous owner's name; unclipped dust has light shelfwear; tightly bound and clean within; scarce title, Autobiography/Bio/Non-FictionShare
