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Near East, Signed Presentation by Cecil Beaton to Louise Dahl-Wolfe
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[Signed Presentation by Cecil Beaton to Louise Dahl-Wolfe] Beaton, Cecil. Near East. Second Printing. 1943. Book is in good plus condition and dust jacket is in very good minus condition—book shows a few pages of minor foxing and scuffed covers, and jacket shows frayed spine ends and repaired tears. Book is inscribed, “To Louise Dahl-Wolfe, with best wishes, from Cecil Beaton, New York, 1944.”
Cecil Beaton traveled the world during World War II as an adjunct of Britain’s Ministry of Information. His job was to record and promote the war effort. This is his account of the journey he took through Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, and Iran in 1942. The book includes occasional sections of b & w photographic plates, as well as Beaton’s detailed record of his journey. Beaton’s gift as a photographer sometimes overshadows his literary ability, but both are in evidence here. He was a keen observer of details, and he writes an absorbing portrait of the Middle East at war. This book is an intriguing time capsule of a region unimaginably different from that Beaton encountered in 1942.
“In the pristine atmosphere of the mountains everything smelt extraordinary fragrant. One drank in marvelous perfumes, so varied that one did not know whether they emanated from the earth, the trees, the flowers, or food, or a combination of all.”
--Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton traveled the world during World War II as an adjunct of Britain’s Ministry of Information. His job was to record and promote the war effort. This is his account of the journey he took through Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, and Iran in 1942. The book includes occasional sections of b & w photographic plates, as well as Beaton’s detailed record of his journey. Beaton’s gift as a photographer sometimes overshadows his literary ability, but both are in evidence here. He was a keen observer of details, and he writes an absorbing portrait of the Middle East at war. This book is an intriguing time capsule of a region unimaginably different from that Beaton encountered in 1942.
“In the pristine atmosphere of the mountains everything smelt extraordinary fragrant. One drank in marvelous perfumes, so varied that one did not know whether they emanated from the earth, the trees, the flowers, or food, or a combination of all.”
--Cecil Beaton
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