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The photographer Cecil Beaton had long been fascinated by the Hollywood star Greta Garbo before their meeting in 1932. Although they were both in same sex relationships at the time, Beaton was left infatuated. When they met again in 1946, their friendship developed into an affair.
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer. Sitter associated with 360 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1114 portraits. Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) (1905-1990), Actress. Sitter in 73 portraits.
11 lut 2014 · Candid images of Garbo and Beaton in London and New York. Cecil Beaton was the multitalented British dandy of the society set from the '20s to the mod '60s. Would his friends and male...
10 lip 2018 · Though Beaton described himself as “a terrible homosexualist,” he was obsessed with women from a very early age, collecting photos of cross-dressing female theater stars, teaching himself photography by practicing on his sisters, and angling to photograph aristocratic women and even film legend Greta Garbo, for whom he harbored a life-long ...
Baba Beaton in fancy dress costume as the Florentine duchess Beaton, Cecil Photos. 1920
Beaton was never permitted to photograph Garbo, his companion and lover, except for one rare occasion when she needed a passport picture. This image was taken during that sitting. More from Photographs
2 wrz 2015 · In an introduction to the book, Annie Leibovitz writes of the love and longing that went into Beaton’s legendary portraits of Greta Garbo, who appears in the slide show above in 1946, at the...
