"The Happy Years 1944-1948: Cecil Beaton's Diaries" 1972 BEATON, Cecil
$250
BEATON, Cecil
[248] pp.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Second Impression
1972
8 3/4" x 5 7/8"
Beaton's third volume covers 1944-48. In 1944 Beaton, as official photographer for the Ministry of Information, was sent to Paris to arrange an exhibition of war photographs. While there he renewed his acquaintance with Picasso and encountered many other famous faces, including Gide, Cocteau and Gertrude Stein.The war over, Beaton the photographer became Beaton the designer and he began to work for Korda in films. Then in 1946, on a visit to New York, he sought out the woman he had met just once ten years before, and everything was suddenly different. For the woman was Greta Garbo. And Beaton was in love.