Cecil Beaton was an english fashion photographer, portrait and war photographer as well as a host of other accolades.
Born in 1904, his first experience of photography came from his nanny who had a Kodak 3a cameral and taught him the basics of photography and film development. To practice, he would take portraits of his mother and sisters and even at this early age would send his more proficient pieces off to society magazines.
He continued his interest in photography whilst studying history, art and architecture at Cambridge, but left without a degree in 1925.
After his first exhibition at the Cooling Gallery in London, Beaton left for America after securing a contract with Conde Nast Publications to take photographs for them for several years.
Beaton is best known for his fashion and portrait photography, working for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair as a staff photographer. After he was fired from Vogue for inserting some anti-semitic phrases into an issue of American Vogue he returned to England and became one of Britain's leading war photographers.
Given the task of recording images on the home front he one of his most enduring images of British suffering during the war was of a three year old Blitz victim recovering in hospital, clutching her teddy bear.
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Exerts taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Beaton
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