![]() ![]() He was by his own admission, “driven by the visual”, and claimed not to have read a book before he was 18, which makes him sound almost millennial. As we plough relentlessly into a 21st century that he anticipated in many ways, long before his death in 1980, I suspect ours is a world he would be as much horrified as impressed by. Little wonder that Cecil Beaton, a man who essentially invented himself and his astonishing career with a portable camera loaded with his ambition and longing, one of the brightest of his bright young generation of the 1920s, has become more famous, not less. Not just for artists in this brave new connected, visual, attention-seeking world, but for civilians too. ![]() In a world saturated with social me-dear surveillance and suffused with surplus selfies, being ‘interesting’ becomes ever-more compulsory – just as it becomes ever-more elusive. ![]()
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