Description
It Gives Me Great Pleasure
Author: Cecil Beaton
Hard cover, fair condition.
It Gives Me Great Pleasure by Cecil Beaton is a witty and engaging travel memoir recounting the British photographer’s experiences during two lecture tours of the United States and Canada in the early 1950s. Rather than focusing on his famed fashion and portrait work, Beaton reflects on life on the road—nervously delivering talks to ladies’ clubs in cities from Detroit to San Francisco and Montreal, meeting a colourful cast of audiences, hotel staff, and taxi drivers, and discovering the diverse cultures and characters of North American towns and cities. Through humorous anecdotes and vivid impressions, he reveals both the challenges of public speaking and his fascination with the vastness and individuality of postwar American society, all told in his characteristic lively and personal style. (thecarycollection.com)
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