Young, glamorous socialites who indulged in every excess
Tallulah Bankhead Portrait. Cecil Beaton captured the Roaring Twenties. As a photographer, by beautifying his subjects he endeared himself to them personally while cementing his position professionally. Beaton was a dab hand at the art of re-touching, whittling waists down to a slimmer circumference, banishing double chins or erasing blemishes, he bathed all his subjects in a beautiful Beaton aura
