Word: beatonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Cecil Beaton, aged three, hopped in bed with his "Mummie" one fine English morning and ran his eye over the day's mail that lay scattered on the eiderdown. There, in the shape of a photographic postcard of a popular actress, Cecil Beaton saw his fate. "The beauty of it," he recalls in Photobiography, "caused my heart to leap...My passion for Miss Lily Elsie and my interest in photography were thus engendered at the same moment...
...Cecil Beaton never got over his boyhood crushes on Miss Lily Elsie and photography. He pursued the latter with such relentlessness that he became one of the world's biggest clicks in fashion and society photography. Beaton's pen portrait of Beaton, like those he makes with his Rolleiflex, shows such a dazzle of limelight about the subject's head that at times he seems not merely Beatonized, but beatified. Nevertheless, his book is a charming tattletale about the semiprivate life of a sort of celluloid Cellini; and the tale is adorned with plenty of gossip about...
Corpse on the Linoleum. All during his adolescence Beaton kept snapping Kodak pictures of his Mummie and his two sisters. At Harrow, he found a willing subject in a schoolmate, and posed him, early one morning, half nude in the headmaster's garden. The headmaster's wife witnessed the scene, and Beaton took no more neoclassic pictures at Harrow...
...HUGH BEATON, M.D., F.I.C.S...
Adroitly sidestepping 22-month-old Prince Charles, who expressed a desire to break open the camera and pull out the "birdie," Britain's Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton snapped the shutter 100-odd times, presented the world with the first pictures of Princess Elizabeth's second-born, Princess Anne. Like any other one-month-old, the young princess went through most of the ordeal either crying or looking bored, but Photographer Beaton reported that she did smile once, displaying a perfect set of pink gums...