'Cecil Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook' | James Danziger

In these pages, reproduced here for the very first time, the inner vision of the man behind the camera takes centre stage. Composed of his own prints and of clippings from magazines, newspapers, and playbills, the pages are an instructive record of his creative process. His famous eye alighted on society figures, royals, dancers, actors, statesmen, and natives in ceremonial garb, picking out visual rhymes and witty juxtapositions. To flip through the pages is to enter a fabulous and surreal party where Tallulah Bankhead rubs shoulders with a bust of Voltaire and a portrait of Stravinsky; where Beaton’s first trip on the Queen Mary coincides with Queen Elizabeth’s coronation.

• Dimensions: W31 x L39 x D6cm
• Hardcover in a luxury slipcase
• 392 pages
• 218 illustrations