An exquisite book that celebrates the masterful and evocative portraits created by one of the world’s most famous twentieth-century photographers Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. A major contributor to Vogue and Vanity Fair inBritain, France, and America, Beaton captured for posterity such admired subjects as artists Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, and Richard Avedon; actresses Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo; statesmen and politicians Winston Churchill and Robert Kennedy; and, of course, Britain’s Royal Family. This sumptuously illustrated book—published on the centenary of Beaton’s birth—brings together many of his evocative portraits in celebration of his remarkable life and work. Gifted in an extraordinary range of fields, Beaton was noted for his flamboyant sense of style. His portraits, fashion photographs, book jacket designs, war reportage, designs for theater and film, and diaries mark him as one of the first international multi-media artists. This book features an illustrated essay discussing the wide range of the photographer’s career as well as a portfolio of 160 beautiful reproductions of his most famous portraits and an extended illustrated chronology. Beaton: Portraits isan exciting and comprehensive look at a tour-de-force photographer and is an essential book for anyone interested in photography, fashion, or twentieth-century style and design.

Beaton: Portraits

Arts & Photography

Pepper, Terence

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

A masterful survey of the finest portraits by one of the most inventive photographic artists of the 20th century The artist May Ray (1890–1976) initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, but it became one of his preferred mediums. As a contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements in Paris during the 1920s, Man Ray was perfectly placed to make defining images of his avant-garde contemporaries, including Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, and Gertrude Stein. Man Ray also photographed his friends and lovers, among them Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), Lee Miller, who helped him discover the solarization printing process, and Ady Fidelin. Man Ray continued to take portrait photographs throughout his career, including little-known images from 1940s Hollywood, and of stars such as Ava Gardner and Catherine Deneuve taken during the 1950s and 1960s.
An essential reference on Man Ray’s life and work, this book includes an introduction by Terence Pepper and essay by Marina Warner exploring the artist’s creativity and appetite for innovation and experimentation. Complete with first-hand testimonies from the artist’s sitters and over 200 beautifully reproduced images, this handsome volume provides a survey of the finest portraits from one of the most inventive photographic artists of the 20th century.

Man Ray Portraits

Trompeteler, Helen

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This collection captures the personalities of the principal players in the artistic and creative ferment of the mid-1920s to 1946. Coster's effects are always carefully judged, often relying on minimal lighting for dramatic impact.

Howard Coster's Celebrity Portraits: 101 Photographs of Personalities in Literature and the Arts

Dover Pubns

A brief study of Bull's art precede his noted portraits of fabled stars

The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull

KOBAL, JOHN

Simon&Schuster

A rich collection of iconic and rare portraits of one of the world’s most photographed women, international film legend Audrey Hepburn. During her lifetime, Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), star of such films as Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady, Charade, and Two for the Road, was recognized around the world. Two decades after her death, Hepburn remains one of the most celebrated actresses of all time, inspiring new generations of admirers. Here, Hepburn’s career is charted from her early years in London as a student of ballet and a performer on the West End stage to her Hollywood heyday to her final years as a special ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Alongside work by the renowned photographers whose portraits defined Hepburn’s image and shaped her career are publicity photographs, images during the production of her films, as well as rare family photographs and other informal archive pictures.   Possessing the features, height, and poise of a model, Hepburn collaborated with such couturiers as Hubert de Givenchy, and her image graced the pages and covers of Harper’s Bazaar and other fashion magazines. She was photographed by legends, including Richard Avedon, whose work is represented here, together with portraits by Cecil Beaton, Antony Beauchamp, Philippe Halsman, Angus McBean, Norman Parkinson, and Irving Penn. An iconic figure whose image—including her unmistakable silhouette from Breakfast at Tiffany’s—left an indelible impact on many cultural contexts, Hepburn played an essential role in the development of celebrity and visual culture in the twentieth century.

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

Fashion

Skira/Rizzoli

Howard Coster's celebrity portraits: 101 photographs of personalities in literature and the arts

Photography & Video

Dover Publications

Lewis Morley's photographs epitomize the buoyant spirit of Britain in the 1960s. Born in Hong Kong, Morley began his career as a painter, but turned to photography in the 1950s. He worked extensively in the theatre, his subjects including John Hurt, Judi Dench, Charlotte Rampling and the cast of the show "Beyond the Fringe". Morley's images of Christine Keeler and Joe Orton are the most familiar of his photographs, but he did not confine himself to the worlds of political scandal and theatre, and his photographs of personalities invovled in art, music, literature, pop and fashion give a full portrait of the creative and energetic decade. The book documents the exhibition of Lewis Morley's work held at the National Portrait Gallery in 1989. Morley emigrated to Australia in 1971 and worked principally for the Australian interiors magazine "Bella", but both book and exhibition rediscover the portrait photography. 86 photographs are reproduced.

Lewis Morley: Photographer of the Sixties

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

Douglas Fairbanks Junior, Yul Brynner, Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson are just some of the well-known faces reappearing in this book devoted to the portraits of Dorothy Wilding. One of the most successful and fashionable photographers in London during the 1920s and 1930s, Dorothy Wilding is now best known for her official accession pictures of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. This book reassesses her contribution to the visual history of the period. Approximately 80 full-page plates are accompanied by an illustrated biographical essay and a complete catalogue of her work in the National Portrait Gallery. Terence Pepper is at the National Portrait Gallery Archive and is author of many works on 20th-century photography including "The Man Who Shot Garbo" and "Mapplethorpe Portraits".

Dorothy Wilding the Pursuit of Perfection

A pioneering photographer of the early cinema, James Abbe captured the spirit of entertainment in New York, Hollywood and Europe in the 1920s with his magically-lit portraits of the stars of screen and stage. A unique album of show business personalities, this book brings together Abbe's iconic images of silent movie stars, his exuberant studies of revues at the Folies Bergere, and his fascinating record of early British cinema. Concluding with his reportage of the turbulent politics of the 1930s, Limelight encapsulates an era through one man's brilliant career.

Limelight: Photographs by James Abbe

Biographies & Memoirs

A masterful survey of the finest portraits by one of the most inventive photographic artists of the 20th century

National Portrait Gallery

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Beaton: Portraits

Man Ray Portraits

Howard Coster's Celebrity Portraits: 101 Photographs of Personalities in Literature and the Arts

The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

Howard Coster's celebrity portraits: 101 photographs of personalities in literature and the arts

Lewis Morley: Photographer of the Sixties

Dorothy Wilding the Pursuit of Perfection

Limelight: Photographs by James Abbe

Man Ray Portraits