The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton brings together for the first time the never before published diaries from 1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries published during his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited. Hugo Vickers, the