Cecil Beaton, a renowned fashion, war and portrait photographer. His life spanned 76 years. He was known for his interior design, costume design for film and theatre and maybe best known for his contribution to the world of photography. He has taken some of the most famous and most beautiful images ever taken. Twiggy's famed doe eyed sixties portrait, Audrey Hepburn's flower hat portrait and of course Marilyn Monroe's famous Ambassador hotel shoot in 1956 to name a few. He had an almost fairytale feel to his photographs and you can see that his love of nature always crept in to his shoots. This, he said, came from his upbringing in Hampstead Heath. He would take photographs of his sisters amongst the flowers in the garden. He loved the beauty of nature and the freeness of it. I really feel this when i see his photos. All his subjects are very natural and and the lighting is always soft and beautiful. They are captured in such a way that you can see feel them through the photographs.
Film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCKx72zhbUU
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