Cecil Beaton In His Own Words

BBC · Cecil Beaton

May 2012 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Cecil Beaton

About this audiobook

Cecil Beaton was a portrait and fashion photographer, as well as a diarist, and Oscar-winning designer. Here he discusses his life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive.

About the author

Cecil Beaton (Author)
Sir Cecil Beaton was born in Hampstead in 1904. Throughout his life he was a diarist, painter and interior designer but most recognised as a fashion and portrait photographer for Vogue, Vanity Fair and LIFE. He won several theatre and film awards, including two Academy Awards for his stage and costume design for My Fair Lady, and was knighted in 1972. He died at home in Wiltshire in 1980.