WHAT'S ON / TYNESIDE SHIP YARDS, 1943: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON

DATE: 12 JUNE 2010 - 03 JULY 2011

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VENUE: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH

30 years after the death of photographer Cecil Beaton, Imperial War Museum North is displaying some of his most iconic Second World War shipyard images in huge 5m high frames outside the Museum - on The Quays in Manchester. Beaton was best known for society portraits and fashion photography, working in Hollywood and for Vogue and Vanity Fair. His celebrity images include the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Mick Jagger. Yet he also worked as an official photographer for the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. Commissioned to record the work of northern shipyards, the resulting photographs
are a striking combination of intimate portraits and dizzying views of the shipyard architecture.