{"product_id":"the-unexpurgated-beaton-the-cecil-beaton-diaries-as-he-wrote-them-19701980","title":"The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them  1970-1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eA twentieth-century photographer  artist  writer and designer for more than fifty years  Cecil Beaton was at the center of the worlds of fashion  society  theater and film. This book brings together for the first time the never-before-published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and  unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime  these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers  the executor of Beatons estate and the author of his acclaimed biography  has added extensive notes that are as lively as the diary entries themselves.  Here is the photographer for British and American Vogue  designer of the sets and costumes for the play and film My Fair Lady and the film Gigi  with a cast of characters from many worlds  at shooting parties in the English countryside  on yachts  at garden parties at Buckingham Palace  at costume balls in Venice  Paris or London.  Beaton began as an outsider and developed the power to observe  first with his nose pressed up against the glass  and later from within inner circles. Vickers has said  His eagle eye missed nothing. The Unexpurgated Beaton is not only a great read and wicked fun  but also a timeless chronicle of our age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986992689205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786716592","price":43.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786716593.jpg?v=1770922401","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-unexpurgated-beaton-the-cecil-beaton-diaries-as-he-wrote-them-19701980","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}