Cecil Beaton
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![A 1932 Standard Rolleiflex, a type of camera used by Beaton](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cecil_Beaton´s_camera_1932_Standard_Rolleiflex4042.jpg")
![Portrait of Sir Roy Strong, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum](/Images/godic/202501/03/Roystrong4042.jpg")
![Queen Fawzia Fuad Chirine with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and their daughter, Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi in Tehran during the Second World War. Photo by Cecil Beaton.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cecil_Beaton_Photographs-_Political_and_Military_Personalities;_Chahnaz,_Princess_of_Iran,_Fawzieh,_Queen_of_Iran,_Mohammed_Reza_Pahlevi_CBM24044042.jpg")
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.