FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPHY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 10

FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPHY.

FROM UNUSUAL ANGLES.

[from our own correspondent.] LONDON, Nov. 25. A young Cambridge man has drawn attention to himself by reason of the originality of certain photographs he is exhibiting at Cooling's Gallery in Bond Street. Mr. Cecil Beaton climbs ladders and photographs people lying on the ground. He combines a portrait of the sitter with a mirrored reflection, or he poses- hia subjects so that their figures are reflected in the lid of a grand piano. In one instance, that of Lady Loughborough, the sitter's head is shown in a glass case. Every portrait shown is entirely original in some way. Lady Ottoline Morrell appears against a fantastic background of a waving ' palm tree. Miss Olga Lynn's portrait, taken from above, is strangely foreshortened and labelled "Miss Olga Lynn as seen by an angel," Miss Nelson photographed from the floor is labelled "Miss Nelson as seen by a dog." , Miss Tallulah Bankhead appears in one portrait as a sorceress. The photographer seems to be especiallly fond of including in his 1 pictures groups of toy balloons of various lines. Among the subjects are Lady Oxford. Mrs. Dudley Ward, Lady Alexander, Mrs. Dudley Coats, Lady Louis Mountbatten, Seigfried Sassoon, Prince George of Russia, and Lady Massarene.