In the two essays accompanying this book of photography, Beaton is portrayed as a dandy who inspired David Bailey's generation with a sense of style, as a surrealist photographing Dali, a documentarist in the Western Desert in 1942, a traveller in the Orient and an ardent royalist. Beaton's "beauties" include Dietrich, Garbo and Marilyn Monroe. They are included here beside Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Shrimpton, Jagger and Richards, Gilbert and George, Hockney and the Queen.
- ISBN10 0821221809
- ISBN13 9780821221808
- Publish Date 1 April 1995 (first published 1 January 1986)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Imprint Bulfinch Press
- Format Hardcover
- Language English