Nicky Haslam

Cecil Beaton, the bitch

A review of ‘Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles’, edited by Hugo Vickers. Katherine Hepburn had ‘rocking horse nostrils’; Mae West was a ‘nice little ape’. The photographer was a natural writer – and snob

Cecil Beaton, self-portrait, 1936 [image courtesy of the Cecil Beaton archive at Sotheby’s]

  • Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles

    edited by Hugo Vickers

    Frances Lincoln, pp. 287

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