WW2 British, Book: 'Air of Glory' A Wartime Scrapbook, Cecil Beaton, 1941.

A beautiful book from one of Britains leading photographers and another popular Christmas book from 1941.

Lavishly illustrated with images of wartime Britain, with some minor damage to dust jacket this copy is in excellent condition.

Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980):
Beaton was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, best known for his elegant and unusual shots of celebrities and royalty. His fascination with glamour and high society continued throughout his life and he was considered a style leader in his own right, known for his easy charm and wit as well as his flamboyance of dress and waspish comments on celebrity figures, a trait that prompted the writer Jean Cocteau to dub him "Malice in Wonderland". He was also a prominent innovator in the relatively new field of fashion photography, an accomplished photojournalist, the winner of two Oscars for his costume design, and a prolific writer publishing numerous texts, including six volumes of his own diaries. Extremely ambitious, Beaton's superb aesthetic eye and flair for the theatrical allowed him to remain relevant over a 50-year career during which he regularly reinvented himself and his style.

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