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Cecil Beaton 塞西爾．比頓
The Years Between—A young Chinese at the Canadian Mission hospital Chengtu 那些年間──躺在成都仁濟醫院的中國男孩
1944
Self-taught in photography,Cecil Beaton was a photographer for renowned fashion magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue, before he was hired by the British Ministry of Information to produce propaganda images during the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945, he took more than seven thousand photographs throughout Britain, the Middle East, India, China, and Burma, capturing scenes of devastation caused by the war across the world, and images of leaders, soldiers, and civilians. This photo of a child lying in bed in the Canadian Mission Hospital in Chengdu, China, resembles a famous portrait taken by Beaton in 1940 that shows a three-year-old girl hospitalized with a bandaged head, looking astonished. However, unlike the previous work, which is taken from a full frontal perspective and carefully structured to emphasise a symmetrical balance, this image exhibits a relatively more intuitive approach that Beaton developed to accentuate the subject of the portrait.
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