Beaton, Cecil. Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1922–1974. Edited by Richard Buckle. Aperture Magazine [Devlin's series taken in prisons

[Devlin's series taken in prisons of execution chambers with Electric Chairs

The 1953 volume is a historical milestone for the debut of several future masters and the mainstreaming of innovative styles:

and the initial proliferation of the camera as a tool for global documentation

The Architecture of Celebrated Portraiture

” “Bridging the Gap

Beaton, Cecil. Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1922–1974. Edited by Richard Buckle. Aperture Magazine [Devlin's series taken in prisonsTimes Books, 1979. First U. S. edition. Very good with price clipped protected dust jacket that has a bit of wear at top of spine. 435 pages including index. Illustrations in black and white with Beatons portraits and some of the photographer himself. Includes Beatons impressions of many well known people, including the British royal family, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, Evelyn