Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980)
Cecil Beaton was one of the world's most successful portrait and fashion photographers. He used his talent in photography to capture celebrities and turn them into timeless icons. His most well known work is his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Twiggy. He was also famous for documenting the British Royal family and weddings of the duke and duchess of Windsor.
Cecil Beaton was one of the world's most successful portrait and fashion photographers. He used his talent in photography to capture celebrities and turn them into timeless icons. His most well known work is his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Twiggy. He was also famous for documenting the British Royal family and weddings of the duke and duchess of Windsor.
Early career
Beaton was Raised in Hampstead by his timber merchant father, from a young age he grew fascinated with clothes appearances and stylish things and was a master of self-inventions. His first experience in photography was as a teenager when he photographed his sisters finely dressed and sent the results to a local newspaper. He was educated at Cambridge, which lead his to his partying with London’s best.
Beaton was Raised in Hampstead by his timber merchant father, from a young age he grew fascinated with clothes appearances and stylish things and was a master of self-inventions. His first experience in photography was as a teenager when he photographed his sisters finely dressed and sent the results to a local newspaper. He was educated at Cambridge, which lead his to his partying with London’s best.
He was a photographer for the British edition of Vogue in 1931. Horst Beaton is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue in addition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood. Beaton's first camera was a Kodak 3A-folding camera. Throughout his career he used both large format cameras and smaller rolleiflex cameras. Beaton was never a highly skilled technical photographer; instead he focused on the staging of a scene and a model and looking for the perfect shutter-release moment. Beaton had a major influence on and relationship with two other leading lights in British photography, Angus Mcbean and David Bailey.
The photographs of these three particlar celebrities are the most importants ones of Beatons work in my opinion because they where photographs of celebrities at that time who beaton made into icons from the photographs. He has choose a particular style for each portrait in order to portray each celebs character.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary themes. Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875). She took up photography at the relatively late age of 48, when she was given a camera as a present. Her style was not widely appreciated but it still managed to have an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits. Her house is open to the public to see. .jpg)
"Annie, my first success", 1864.
Cameron's first print she was satisfied with
Cameron was 48 years old when she received her first camera , she received it as a gift from her daughter which was the starting point of her photography career. Within a year cameron became a member of the photographic societies of london and scotland. Cameron wanted to capture beauty within her images she wrote ' I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and length the longing has been satisfied' She used the basic technique of soft-focus 'fancy portraits' which where taught to her by David Wilkie Wynfield.
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