Before I visited the work of the photographer Cecil Beaton at the Walker Art Gallery I had a pre-conceived idea of what it would be like... I imagined that there would be huge images of some of the most famous people of the 20th century.
I was slightly suprised when I got there. Although all the images I'd thought would be there were on display, there was only one that had been enlarged, the famous photograph of Audrey Hepburn. The rest were only small and in glass frames which was quite irritating due to all the lights bouncing off them! However it did
not take much away from the iconic photographs. He is of course renowned for his fascination with Hollywood stars and that was clear to see from the exhibition. There were beautiful photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews which captured their more private and vulnerable side.
The images that I was most interested in were the ones of the Queen and Prince Charles. The images that I am used to seeing of them are all very uniformed and serious, in contrast these images really showed their personalities and again their vulnerability and just made them look like a normal family having fun.
Although I was at first slightly disappointed by the exhibition I had changed
my mind by the time I'd left. I decided that maybe the scale of the images was the key to preserving the sensitivity of them. Even though the images spanned six decades, the photographs appeared to be timeless which must be why they are still so popular today.
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