Scrapping with Cecil

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eagerly awaiting, the ultimate SCRAPbook.

from Assouline  with a delayed release date of November - It may be THE ultimate holiday  gift for purveyors of STYLE.

compiled by James Danziger of Danziger Projects in New York & former Director of Photography at the London Sunday Times Magazine, features editor of Vanity Fair, and director of Magnum New York.

ASSOLINE says:
As one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, Cecil Beaton helped invent the cult of the celebrity image while pushing the boundaries of his art form with innovative techniques and staging. In the course of his decades-long career as a photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, as well as a British war correspondent, Cecil Beaton documented lives both famous and quotidian in dozens of scrapbooks now held by Sotheby’s London.

I can just see Cecil & Garbo "scrapping" in Beaton's living room at the Plaza Hotel, c.1964.

photograph by Dmitri Kessel, from LIFE

Garbo.

Cecil snaps a photo.

image from here

in the meanwhile read LOVING GARBO by Hugo Vickers-a- can't put it down read.
or any of the Cecil Beaton diaries from Knopf.

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DEVASTATING BEAUTY : the CUT

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 "Beauty can be isolating."

Richard Avedon

GRETA GARBO "Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."

  

GRACE KELLY "Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal."

MERLE OBERON  "Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."

of MARELLA AGNELLI Capote said "If they were both in Tiffany's window, Marella would be more expensive."(the other 'they' being Babe Paley.)

Pauline de Rothschild "Elegance. The most fleeting, intractable of qualities. It can be increased, but rarely bought outright."

 James Lees-Milne said of DIANA MITFORD her beauty was "the closest to Botticelli's Venus that I have ever seen."

PAUL NEWMAN "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

GARY COOPER “The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all”

Giorgi Armani said of TINA CHOW " Tina had an innate elegance and never needed any designer to do anything for her. Rather she did a lot for us."

DONYALE LUNA "Back in Detroit I wasn't considered beautiful or anything but here I'm different"



 in NO particular order-

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