cecil beaton

paula gellibrand, 1928

ruth ford in schiaparelli, 1936

katharine hepburn, 1936

buster keaton, 1930

baba beaton, "symphony in silver", 1925

tallulah bankhead, 1927

greta garbo, 1947

jean cocteau a toulon, 1930

wallis simpson in schiaparelli's lobster print dress, chateau de candé, engagement photo, 1937.

mrs. macadoo, 1920s

nancy beaton holding daisy, age 17, 1926

rudolf hametovich nureyev, 1962

orson welles, 1937

marlene dietrich, 1932

marilyn monroe, 1956

lady ottoline morrell, 1927

gabrielle "coco" chanel, 1937

sylvia sidney, 1932

zita & teresa, the jungman twins, 1926

mick jagger, 1968

all photographs by cecil beaton.

the story-tellers, part 36

buster keaton

italian dolls, photograph by ruth bernhard

pierce man feeding doll, ca. 1864

die puppe (selbstporträt mit der puppe) by hans bellmer, 1934

photograph by studio manasse

photograph by aram alban, 1932

the new york dolls

henri toulouse-lautrec, ca. 1899

zeigfeld girl, photograph by alfred cheney johnston

albert einstein

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the story-tellers, part 21

phillips holmes by george hoyningen-huene, ca. 1930s

douglas fairbanks jr, ca. 1930s

conrad veidt, ca. 1920s

nils aster, ca. 1920s

buster keaton on the steps of his home, the italian villa, ca. mid-late 1920s

gary cooper, ca. 1930s

le sigh....when men were men.

last days of magic

mary kid painted as a skeleton for her role in die tochter des kunstreiters by fritz kamper & director siegfried philippi, ca. 1927

lon chaney, the man of a thousand faces, ca. 1920s

darryl hannah as "pris" & harrison ford as "deckard" in blade runner directed by ridley scott, 1982

on the set of metropolis directed by fritz lang, 1927

kay johnson in madam satan directed by cecil b. demille, 1930

vampyr, the dream of allan grey, directed by carl theodor dreyer, 1932

jean marais as la bête in la belle et la bête directed by jean cocteau, 1946

musidora as irma vep in les vampires directed by louis feuillade, 1915

maria falconetti as jeanne d'arc in the passion of joan of arc directed by carl theodor dreyer, 1928

brigitte helm behind the scenes on the set of metropolis directed by fritz lang, 1927

charlie chaplin in modern times directed by charlie chaplin, 1936

buster keaton dressed as a clown next to his make-up box (with picture of lon chaney), ca. 1930s

maria casarès in orphée directed by jean cocteau, 1950

max schreck as graf orlok/nosferatu directed by f.w. murnau, 1922

alla nazimova in salomé directed by charles bryant, 1923