Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things

Classic drinks that epitomize the era get a contemporary twist in [this] delightful new book.--Lucy Rees Galerie I'm devastated not to be able to experience Britain's National Portrait Gallery exhibition Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things firsthand, but I am taking consolation in Robin Muir's handsome catalog (art directed with suitable elegance by Thomas Persson).--Hamish Bowles Vogue Otherworldly, untouchable in his beauty, and eerily, eternally modern.--Emma Garman Paris Review A web of names spins around every image, every interaction--Virginia Woolf, the actress Anna May Wong, the economist John Maynard Keynes, the author Daphne du Maurier. Everyone seemed to know everyone....We see, through Beaton, his subjects' relentless search for distraction and, simultaneously, for meaning. We see their quest for a semblance of place, a home, but also, in contradiction, for freedom--for an escape from the humdrum, for that heady, if sometimes startling, sensation of not being trapped.--Lou Stoppard Aperture From Bright Young Thing and documenter of London's lost generation of the 20s to a documenter of a new generation who would lose their lives in the Second World War, this is just one slice of Cecil Beaton's remarkable life through photography--Mark Simpson AnOther Man Returning to Beaton's enchanted world is a tonic in a fear-ridden age, the catalogue, written by the exhibition's curator, Robin Muir, a delight.--David Platzer New Criterion explores the aesthetic 1920s set and the photographer who chronicled them.--Brian T. Allen National Review A century ago, a bohemian set of aristos and artists oozed glamour and wreaked havoc all through the streets of London.--Hannah Betts Daily Mail A magnificently atmospheric display of pure magic--Lucie Davies Telegraph An era's fun and flamboyance preserved in aspic.--Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Times As they posed, partied and donned extravagant costumes, Beaton captured the antics of Britain's young aristocrats between the wars.--Sean O'Hagan Guardian Beaton changed fashion photography forever.--Robin Muir Vogue: UK Cecil Beaton and His Bright Young Things Are More Pertinent Than Ever--Jack Moss AnOther Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things Are Tinged With Darkness--Will Noble Londonist Decades after Cecil Beaton captured their heyday on camera, his most colourful characters are taking us for a spin again--Hugo Vickers Telegraph Glittering portrait of a gilded generation.--Melanie McDonagh Evening Standard Power, privilege and glamour in 1920s London: Inside the glittering world of the Bright Young Things--Eve Watling Independent The 'Bright Young Things, ' as a flamboyant group of artists, writers and socialites came to be known, are shown here in all their decadence, boundless creativity and utter fashionability.--Ken Scrudato Blackbook