#Beaton

[mote-historie]

Marlene Dietrich wearing an Elsa Schiaparelli ensamble from the fall/winter 1936-1937 collection, British Vogue, photo by Cecil Beaton, October 1936.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose

Gender Performance in Photography 

Jennifer Blessing

with contributions by Judith Halberstam, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nancy Spector, Carole-Anne Tyler, Sarah Wilson

Guggenheim Museum Publ., New York 1997, 224 pages, softcover, 27,30x33,65cm, ISBN 0-89207-185-0

euro 120,00

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Exhibition New York January 17- April 27, 1997

This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein’s famous motto, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” with the name of Marcel Duchamp’s feminine alter ego, Rrose Selavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages in which the gender of the subject is highlighted through performance for the camera or through technical manipulation of the image. In many of the works, photography’s strong aura of realism and objectivity promotes a fantasy of total gender transformation. In other pieces, the photographic representation articulates an incongruity between the posing body and its assumed costume. Features work by Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hàch, Man Ray, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Inez van Lamsweerde and Andy Warhol.

02/05/24

[detournementsmineurs]

"Greta Garbo en Pierrot" par Cecil Beaton (1946) et "Sarah Bernhardt dans Pierrot Assassin, Pantomine de Jean Richepin" par Paul Nadar (1883) présentées à l'exposition “Revoir Watteau - Un Comédien Sans Réplique. Pierrot, dit le Gilles" du Louvre, janvier 2025.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Actress Ruth Chatterton by Cecil Beaton by totallymystified Via Flickr: From the Help Yourself Annual, 1931.

[thejazzera]

Beaton, Vogue cover, 1935

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

[kitsunetsuki]

Cecil Beaton - Margot Fonteyn, 1950, from Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography by Robin Derrick and Robin Muir (2004)

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

[quasi-normalcy]

[twixnmix]

Marlon Brando photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1946.

Vogue (August 15, 1946):  

Found two seasons ago on Broadway, Marlon Brando is twenty-one, and very good indeed. His first big part was in "I Remember Mama"; last winter, he gave a superb performance as a war-shocked murderer in "Truckline Cafe"—the Maxwell Anderson play that ended up with Anderson calling the New York critics "the Jukes." In the spring, Brando was a stormy Marchbanks to Katharine Cornell's Candida. He was born in Bangkok, grew up here; has a chaos of hair, a wilful theatrical talent.

[mote-historie]

Portrait of Margaret Whigham later Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll or Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1934.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Vanity Fair

Portraits of an Age 1914-1936

Introduction by John Russell

Thames & Hudson, London 1983, 203 pages, 23,5x30cm, ISBN 0 500 54089 6

missing pages n.51-52

euro 20,00

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An undiscovered trove of over 200 celebrity photographs from the archives of Vanity Fair magazine, many of which had been commissioned from the foremost photographers of the age, but ended up being unpublished. Stunning black a white portrait photography(many full page) of artists, musicians, performers - people who shaped an era - by outstanding photographers: Man Ray, Baron de Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, Cecil Beaton, Horst, Berenice Abbott, Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huené, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, August Sander, Gertrude Käsebier, and more. 

09/04/24

[detournementsmineurs]

“Lee Miller (Lee)” biopic d'Ellen Kuras - sur la photographe Elizabeth “Lee” Miller (1907-1977) - avec Kate Winslet, Josh O'Connor, Andy Samberg, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Marion Cotillard, Noémie Merlant, Vincent Colombe, Patrick Mille et Samuel Barnett, octobre 2024.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Actress Zasu Pitts by Cecil Beaton by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the film Finn And Hattie. From the Help Yourself Annual, 1931.

[robertocustodioart]

Marlon Brando by Cecil Beaton 1946