Cecil Beaton.
Odhams Press Limited. London. 1951. British edition. First edition. Hardback, small quarto; khaki cloth-bound boards, gilt title to spine, dust jacket. 254 pages. Frontispiece and 60 hors-texte black and white photographic plates. English. 255 x 190mm. 0.7kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear to jacket, light rubbing to top edge, not price-clipped; some spotting to page edges, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper.
Cecil Beaton's witty account of the first twenty-five years of his career, filled with anecdotes and photos. Published before the diaries, Photobiography is an early memoir from Beaton. It's focus is on his career as a photographer, from his early boyhood with his Box Brownie to the post-War photographs of the Royal Family, taking in Hollywood, Vogue and the War along the way. The book is well illustrated with examples of Beaton's work, some well-known portraits and some lesser-known ones.
