Trending: The Journey of Cecil Beaton, In a New Book and Film

Everything about Cecil Beaton was vivid.
Including his black-and-white images.
“Beaton was in his late 30s when he first photographed Queen Elizabeth II, in 1942,” noted The Cut blog recently. “The first portraits were black-and-white, but Beaton, who would win an Oscar for dressing Audrey Hepburn [in My Fair …