Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, Imperial War Museum
Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, Imperial War Museum
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Friday, 7 September, 2012 (All day)
Cecil Beaton's glamorous photographs of royalty and celebritiesprojected him to fame but less well-known is his work as a wartime photogr
apher. Commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1940, Beaton was thelongest serving high-profile photographer to cover the Second World War. H
e travelled throughout Britain, the Middle East, India, China and Burma
and captured a world on the brink of lasting change. This exhibition explor
es what Beaton later described as his most important body of work. Until 1
January, 2013
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