Author: Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/ English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 39
Illustrations: 34 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8789712102
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Cat. of exh.
Code: 2430
Price: $19.50
Here are photographic portraits by the renowned English photographer Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) of some of the most celebrated personalities of the 20th century: Karen Blixen, John Gielgud, Greta Garbo, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Igor Stravinsky, Carson McCullers, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, Martha Graham, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas, Truman Capote, Beba Beaton, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Charles de Gaulle. There is also a wonderful extra series of photographs of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), taken in New York in 1959.