Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/D/2/1/17
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/D/2/1/17
Title
Beaton
Date(s)
- 1958 (undated, circa.) (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
3p paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typescript summary of Beaton's life and photographic work - the type of equipment that he uses and the techniques that he applies. The final paragraph may be a quotation from Beaton himself, commenting on the nature of photography and on the need to return to the approach of such nineteenth-century pioneers as "Atget and Mrs Cameron, who were shy of mechanical efficiencies but rich in that greatest of all human attributes: a sense of wonder."