Beaton Portraits Terence Pepper Roy Strong Peter Conrad National Portrait Gallery, London.

I used the book "Beaton Portraits" as a source when looking at inspiring poses and imagery for the perfect base project. I initially took this book from the library as In a practical session Chris had mentioned the practitioner and I had studied this photographers work before. In response to some online research I had done on the photographer, I decided to look in the library and see if there were any books that discussed Beaton's works and showed images of his late works they you couldn't find online.


Using this book was very helpful and I felt inspired by the portraits he captured of stars such as 'Zita and Theresa Jungman, 1927'. and also 'Sylvia Sidney, Hollywood, 1932'. I also find this book inspiring as many of the images in this book consist of black and white imagery similar to the perfect base projects. Alongside seeing this black and white images and also learning fro Chris in lessons I feel that I have a better understanding of how contrast, lighting and white balance is very important in all images, especially black and white ones. 

Plate 25 Slyvia Sidney, Hollywood, 1932.
Plate 7 Zita and Theresa Jungman,1927.
Plate 3 Nancy Beaton as a Shooting Star,1929.