Beaton, Cecil. Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1922–1974. Edited by Richard Buckle. Aperture Magazine analyzing how his clean lines

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Beaton, Cecil. Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1922–1974. Edited by Richard Buckle. Aperture Magazine analyzing how his clean linesTimes 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