"Indian Album" 1945 BEATON, Cecil

BEATON, Cecil

[78] pp.

B.T. Batsford Ltd Limited

1945

9 1/8" x 7"

Inscribed by the author

w/ hand-written letter on 8 Pelham Place stationery with all good wishes from Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton's photographs of war-time India. Beaton was sent to the Far East during World War II to take photographs for the Ministry of Information. He visited India in 1944 and An Indian Album brings together a collection of the photographs he took there. As well as images of Indian soldiers there are photos of local people, workers, customs and rituals, street scenes and cultural monuments. The book differs from India, published in Bombay by Beaton in the same year, with its own text and a different selection of images.