Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir  (, 1904-1980) <br/><br/>
The unexpurgated Beaton  : the Cecil Beaton diaries as he wrote them, 1970-1980 
/ introduced by Hugo Vickers 
 - 1st American ed. 
 - New York  : Alfred A. Knopf  , 2003 
 - 508 p.  : illus.  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/> Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited.   Beaton had started as an outsider and "developed the power to observe, first with his nose pressed up against the glass," and then later from within inner circles. Vickers has said, "his eagle eye missed nothing," and his diaries are intuitive, malicious (he took a "relish in hating certain figures"), praising and awestruck. Truman Capote once said "the camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400041121 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003040027 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir (, 1904-1980) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Photographers<br/>Diaries
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR140.B4  / A3 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 BEA