"Indian Album" 1945 BEATON, Cecil Paisley

"Indian Album" 1945 BEATON, Cecil PaisleyBEATON, Cecil [78] pp. B. T. Batsford Ltd 1945 9" x 7 1 8" Cecil Beaton's photographs of war time India. Beaton was sent to the Far East during World War II to take photographs for the Ministry of Information. He visited India in 1944 and An Indian Album brings together a collection of the photographs he took there. As well as images of Indian soldiers there are photos of local people, workers, customs and rituals, street scenes and cultural

from nonstop dancing and drinking beneath the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and sex in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities taking place in the office of the studio’s flamboyant co-owner Steve Rubell

so great has been the zeal of the historians to prove its noble pedigree

and society stars of the 1940s and 1950s

Stapled wrap

and Bathurst – were deep-dyed aesthetes and creators of superb domains

in photogravure

and of Fort Ticonderoga

Edition: Multilingual (English

New York and Dublin and London

It was the first in a series of four books about the adventures of a London charwoman

Highlights: Featured items included photographs of socialites and celebrities

Shinji  [photographed by]