Salvador and Gala Dali | London, 1936 | Cecil Beaton | Photography

Salvador and Gala Dali, London, 1936

Born in 1904, Beaton was the son of a timber merchant, and was first introduced to photography by his nanny


Cecil Beaton photographed the beautiful people of the decadent 1920s and 30s, from London to Hollywood, before turning a critical eye on the second world war.

The Guardian:  Bright young thing: the early work of Cecil Beaton – in pictures

Beaton was the favorite type of slacker for the Rockhouse.

Beaton attended Harrow School, and then, despite having little or no interest in academia, moved on to St John's College, Cambridge, and studied history, art and architecture. Beaton continued his photography, and through his university contacts managed to get a portrait depicting the Duchess of Malfi published in Vogue. It was actually George "Dadie" Rylands – "a slightly out-of-focus snapshot of him as Webster's Duchess of Malfi standing in the sub-aqueous light outside the men's lavatory of the ADC Theatre at Cambridge." Beaton left Cambridge without a degree in 1925.

WIKI:  Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton


Dali achieved the ultimate in artistic narcissism in making he and Gala art objects but that's not a criticism since he was genius at it.  Every woman should be loved like he loved Gala and he included her in multiple of his masterpieces.

Beaton and Dali were from roughly the same Era of Wizards.