In Love Cecil, Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers an evocative portrait of this talented whirlwind whose creative work was tied to his intense social life. Using photography, drawings, letters, and scrapbooks by Beaton and his contemporaries, along with excerpts from his sparkling diaries and other writings, Immordino Vreeland brings his spirit to life in a way that no previous book has been able to do.
Immordino Vreeland organises her book around the circles of Beaton's daily life: the people who inspired and influenced him, his colourful friends, his fellow photographers, his Hollywood conquests, his English roots, and others. This cavalcade offers a shimmering vision of high style, but it also captures often-troubled souls struggling to create the open, tolerant, creative worlds of art and culture that we have inherited today.
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"Lisa Immordino Vreeland's visual biography presents a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the motivations, inspirations and obsessions that drove one of fashion s most prodigious photographers. With access to his journals, scrapbooks and letters, Love, Cecil seeks to fill in the shapes around the artist, a surprisingly lonely character who always thought himself an outsider. Neither does she shy away from addressing his less endearing qualities, his quick irritation and the anti-Semitic comments that ruined his later career. Mostly, however, her efforts are focused on showcasing his omnivorous drive to create and a body of work that still dazzles near 40 years after his death." Financial Times
"Hollywood Confidential. From hiding their pregnancies to recording their mood swings, few people came closer to cinema's greatest stars than Sir Cecil Beaton." --The Telegraph Magazine
"In Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton, Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana's granddaughter-in-law) offers an evocative portrait of the luminary's life, covering his influences, inspirations, friends and Hollywood conquests through a cavalcade of photographs, scrapbooks and letters." Vanity Fair UK
"Unlike the 74 bus, Beaton books come along every few minutes. But the bus stops here, at Lisa Immordino Vreeland's sumptuous, subtle Love, Cecil. The title unpunctuated could be a command as well as an envoi. Obey, and be enchanted." The Spectator
"The glamorous world of photographer, writer, painter and designer Cecil Beaton is told in this visually rich portrait of his complex character." --The Gloss
"Attempting a complete portrait of a photographer in just one book is an ambitious project but one that Immordino Vreeland attempts with verve, taking us from Beaton's early life and friendships right through his highly varied career, backing it up with drawings, diaries, scrapbooks and, of course, photographs." --Black + White Photography
Filmmaker and writer Lisa Immordino Vreeland is the author of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. Her popular and innovative documentaries Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, which the Hollywood Reporter called a “vivid, delicious trip,” and Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict have reached wide audiences. Previously a fashion entrepreneur, Vreeland was born in Milan, Italy, and lives in New York City.
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