Cecil Beaton

British portrait and fashion photographer who photographed Gala.

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Nationality: British
Roles: Photographer

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Gala Dalí

Artists' model
Muse
Agent

Collaborated with

Gala sat for Cecil Beaton, one of several photographers who made portraits of her.

— Estrella de Diego, Gala Salvador Dalí: A Room of One's Own in Púbol (2018), p. 2

Nancy Cunard

Poet
Publisher
Printer
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Collaborated with · 1929

Cunard sat for Beaton in 1929, against a polka-dot backdrop, for a portrait he used in The Book of Beauty the following year. The National Portrait Gallery holds the vintage bromide print as NPG x40077. Beaton's own line about her was that she looked like a robot woman in a German film.

— Nancy Cunard by Cecil Beaton, 1929, vintage bromide print, NPG x40077

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