Master of Illusion ; Angus Mcbean Was the Doyen of Theatrical Photographers. Richard Edmonds Focuses On a New Book About Him

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The Photographs of Angus McBean from the Stage to the Surreal. By Fredric Woodbridge Wilson and Richard Traubner (Thames and Hudson: pounds 22.50)

Angus McBean was the doyen of theatre photographers during the 1950s, when the old Stratford Memorial Theatre was buzzing with great names and magnificent productions. McBean was there on stage photographing Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Emlyn Williams (whose shylock still stands as a monument to any interpretation of the part before or since) Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Dorothy Tutin and many more.

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Master of Illusion ; Angus Mcbean Was the Doyen of Theatrical Photographers. Richard Edmonds Focuses On a New Book About Him

Outside the theatre huge blow-ups of beautiful faces were the stuff of illusion. In a McBean photograph, nobody ever aged. Those in their 60s still carried the bloom of youth on their skins. "They all want to be beautiful", he said, adding he also ...

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