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Cecil Beaton, pt.1

On October 29, 2013 By Deborah Parker
“A total self-creation” Truman Capote “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”  –Cecil Beaton               [...]
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