subject���s stance and in the setting. In contrast, the subject depicted
in Model in a costume for Noel Coward���s Look After Lulu, 1959, is
baroque. Beaton���s photography poignantly records the parallel presence of these aesthetics throughout much of his career.
He leaned towards the Baroque, a modernist Baroque, a neo-Baroque. Personified by the theatre, Hollywood and Stephen Tennant,
it was as much a pure design statement as it was a reaction against
both the horrors of the First and then the Second World Wars. MarMar
lene Dietrich, 1937, fittingly encapsulates the Beaton style and look.
The subject, ironically, in her talents and personal history speak to
Marlene Dietrich in New York, 1937 �� Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby���s Courtesy Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby���s
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