“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary” –Cecil Beaton
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Cecil Beaton drinking while wearing his fourth costume of the evening, as host of his garden party. --circa 1948
Cecil Beaton-- his vanity knew no bounds.
Photographer Cecil Beaton adjusting the lens on a primitive camera in his studio, U.K. --circa 1929.
Cecil Beaton-- put that in your pike a smoke it.
Photographer Cecil Beaton escorting Francis Doble (Lady Lindsey Hogg) to the wedding of Lord Herbert Equerry & Lady Mary Hope-- Circa 1936
Actress Ina Claire hugging Cecil Beaton at the opening of "Once Is Enough"-- circa 1937
Photographer/designer Cecil Beaton at the switchboard doing his duty as an Air Raid Precautions operator on the estate of Lord and Lady Pembroke-- circa 1940
Fashion designer Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel w. photographer Cecil Beaton-- circa 1937
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