PHOTOGRAPHER

Cecil Beaton

1904 - 1980

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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cecil Beaton has received more than 1,284,040 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Cecil Beaton is the 51st most popular photographer (down from 49th in 2019), the 1,967th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,035th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Cecil Beaton ranks 51 out of 148. Before him are Oliviero Toscani, Hippolyte Bayard, Herb Ritts, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Patrick Demarchelier, and Daidō Moriyama. After him are Sophie Calle, Gustav Klutsis, Napoleon Sarony, Inge Morath, Kishin Shinoyama, and Étienne Carjat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Cecil Beaton ranks 136. Before him are Helen Kane, Berta Karlik, Edgar P. Jacobs, Attilio Ferraris, Lippo Hertzka, and Antonin Magne. After him are Chishū Ryū, Vilis Lācis, Luigi Bertolini, James J. Gibson, Frederick Ashton, and Goffredo Petrassi. Among people deceased in 1980, Cecil Beaton ranks 120. Before him are Toyen, Sherm Clark, Franco Basaglia, Erich Hückel, Barbara O'Neil, and Pietro Nenni. After him are Justas Paleckis, Sanjay Gandhi, Leopold Kielholz, Joy Adamson, Lucien Buysse, and George Raft.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cecil Beaton ranks 1,967 out of 8,785. Before him are Lindsay Kemp (1938), Ken Annakin (1914), Thomas Hicks (1876), Robert Conquest (1917), Tom Sharpe (1928), and Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751). After him are Roger Deakins (1949), Penelope Wilton (1946), Dudley Moore (1935), Cary Elwes (1962), Harry Andrews (1911), and Ralph Erskine (1914).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Cecil Beaton ranks 3. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830), and Roger Fenton (1819). After him are David Bailey (1938), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Alexander Gardner (1821), Allan Warren (1948), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), and Mick Rock (1948).

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