Frederic Woodbridge Wilson: The Photographs of Angus Mcbean: From the Stage to the Surreal
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Жанр : Thames&Hudson
Издательство : Thames&Hudson
Год издания : 2009
Аннотация:
'My kind of theatre concerns itself with kings and queens, princesses sleeping or otherwise in ivory towers, or in enchanted castles with satins, furs and cloth of gold... There must be huge splashes of colour, wild music, beautiful people, monstrous Calibans; magic, imagination, illusion, fairies, oceans of blood and wine, and always happy endings…' So wrote Angus McBean of the theatre for which he was the court photographer for nearly thirty years – the London stage from the 1930s to the 1960s, an era that encompassed legendary productions of Shakespeare, Congreve, Shaw, Wilde and Coward, the fading British musical and the burgeoning Broadway musical, the operas of Benjamin Britten, and the beginnings of the Royal Ballet and the Royal National Theatre. Blending wit, drama and fantasy with the consummate skill of a master, McBean was one of the greats of theatrical, creative and commercial photography. The best of his theatrical portraits, in which he immortalized the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and many others, are superbly reproduced in this sumptuous volume, which will appeal to everyone with an interest in British theatre, photography and surrealism.