Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
Evening Dresses
1936
Gelatin silver print
Museum no. Ph.193-1977

A self-taught photographer, Beaton launched his career in 1926 with an exhibition in London that won him an immediate contract with Vogue. His sumptuous and romantic images depict high society beauties and the most glamorous models of the age. Here the models, dressed in Schiaparelli, pose in a surrealist stage set typical of Beaton’s work of the 1930s.