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M+, Hong Kong, © Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's
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Cecil Beaton 塞西爾．比頓
The Years Between—A Beaton portrait in Fukien province: Cecil Beaton recalls that as one of the most impressive human faces he has ever encountered 那些年間──比頓在福建省所拍的肖像：塞西爾．比頓憶述，那是一張教他印象難忘的臉
1944
Self-taught in photography, Cecil Beaton was a photographer for renowned fashion magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue, before he was hired by the British Ministry of Information to produce propaganda images during the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945, he took more than seven thousand photographs throughout Britain, the Middle East, India, China, and Burma, capturing scenes of devastation caused by the war, and images of leaders, soldiers, and civilians. This particular work is a portrait of a shopkeeper who the photographer encountered in Fukien Province, southern China, during a time when the country was traumatised by the Second World War and the Civil War. Unlike other war photographs of the period that depict gory scenes of bloodshed, this portrait draws attention to the facial features and expression of the subject—an approach that was perhaps influenced by Cecil Beaton’s past background in fashion photography.
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