{"product_id":"cecil-beaton-in-love-9780847875719","title":"Cecil Beaton in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deeply intimate portrait of Beaton--his life, his loves, and his courageous coming to terms with himself--seen through the lens of his most meaningful relationships.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis revelatory book offers a fresh and profoundly personal perspective on Cecil Beaton's life, shaped through his final and most sustaining love affair. Drawing on never-before-published photographs Beaton and his last partner, Kinmont Hoitsma, took of one another, as well as the tender, revealing letters they exchanged, it opens a rare window onto the private world they shared--the homes they lived in, the rooms they inhabited, and the emotional space they created together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 1963, Beaton was at the height of international fame, working in Hollywood on \u003ci\u003eMy Fair Lady\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet behind the public success lay decades of fraught and often unfulfilled relationships, shaped by the criminalization of homosexuality in Britain. In Hoitsma--an American ex-Olympian fencer and art historian who lived openly within San Francisco's emerging gay community--Beaton found something wholly unexpected: mutual affection, emotional honesty, and a sense of peace. Their year together at Beaton's home in Wiltshire marked a turning point, allowing Beaton, for the first time, to acknowledge his identity with a new clarity and openness. Though they ultimately accepted that a permanent domestic partnership was not possible, their bond endured until Beaton's death in 1980. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFramed through this late-life relationship, the book traces the broader arc of Beaton's extraordinary career and inner life--his artistic ambitions, his cultivated interiors, and the seamless way he wove photography, fashion, theater, and design into a singular aesthetic vision. At once a love story, a portrait of an artist, and a meditation on self-acceptance, this book reveals Beaton as never before seen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rizzoli International Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780847875719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Andrew Ginger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933653921973,"sku":"9780847875719","price":55.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cecil-beaton-in-love-9780847875719","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}