Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2020.
ISBN: 9781855147775
Condition: Fine
Hardcover
First Edition
9.75 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 150 color.
The stylish and extravagant world of the “Bright Young Things” of 1920s and ’30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton In 1920s and ‘30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the “Bright Young Things.” Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (in Vile Bodies), Anthony Powell and Henry Green, these men and women cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch and embodied its roaring spirit. 9781855147720. Item #19922
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