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<\/p>\nSan Diego is the only West Coast stop for one of the most compelling photography exhibitions of the year. Cecil Beaton\u2019s Fashionable World opens at the Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art, and it\u2019s a genuinely rare opportunity \u2013 the first exhibition ever dedicated solely to Beaton\u2019s fashion and portrait photography, organized by The National Portrait Gallery in London and landing in Balboa Park as part of SDMA\u2019s centennial year.<\/p>\n
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A Career That Spanned Decades and Continents<\/p>\n
Cecil Beaton was one of those rare creative forces who seemed to do everything \u2013 photographer, fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist, writer. <\/p>\n
The exhibition traces his career across more than 100 works, moving through ten sections that cover everything from his early work with London\u2019s artistically inclined socialites of the 1920s to fashion photography for Vogue, documentary work during World War II, and the iconic costume and set designs for My Fair Lady on stage and screen.<\/p>\n
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The Faces He Photographed<\/p>\n
The portraits alone make this worth the trip. Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Francis Bacon, Truman Capote, Salvador Dal\u00ed \u2013 Beaton had an extraordinary ability to capture the personality and charisma of whoever sat in front of his lens, whether it was a Hollywood icon or a future queen.<\/p>\n
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Good to Know<\/p>\n
SDMA members get complimentary admission. General admission tickets are required for nonmembers. A full-color catalogue from The National Portrait Gallery is also available in the MOPA@SDMA Store for anyone who wants to take a piece of it home.<\/p>\n
See you there!<\/p>\n
Over 100 photographs, six decades of glamour, and the only West Coast showing \u2013 Cecil Beaton\u2019s Fashionable World is exactly the kind of exhibition that makes Balboa Park worth the trip.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcc6 Saturday, July 11, 2026 \u2013 Sunday, January 10, 2027 See you there, San Diego!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego is the only West Coast stop for one of the most compelling photography exhibitions of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[967,74,76,54934,75,8419,18100],"class_list":["post-358486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-entertainment","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-museums","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do-in-san-diego","tag-things-to-see-in-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ud83d\udccd1649 El Prado, Casa de Balboa, Balboa Park
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