To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
National Photographic Portrait Prize curator, Sarah Engledow, finds reward in a difficult task and ultimately uncovers the essence of portraiture.
'Artist and actors, advancing spasmodically, find their rhythm together' writes Sarah Engledow.
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.