photography tuesday

Two of my favourite photographs from the marvellous Cecil Beaton exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. His images are wonderfully varied but all are dramatic, artistic and affecting, and I was struck by how well he chose his backgrounds. There are some introductory 'Bright Young Things' photos as well (by coincidence I am reading Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies) which make the contrast with what he did next even more startling.