WELSH PHOTOGRAPHER : ANGUS McBEAN
A TALK FROM WILLIAM CROSS, FSA Scot
‘Footprints in the sands of time…..’
Angus Rowland McBean (1904-1990). Society, fashion and
theatre photographer. A feast for the
eye to behold of the good, great and scandalous as captured by McBean’s cameras.
Angus
McBean was born in Newbridge, South Wales and attended Newport
Art and Technical
College London
McBean is famous
for his theatrical images of dozens of the great stars of stage & screen in
the 1930s through to the 1970s from actors likes Oliver, Gielguid, Vivian
Leigh, Audrey Hepburn and later he designed album covers for the iconic
musicians like The Beatles.
McBean hit a
set back in the second world war years when jailed for four years but bounced
back in the later decades to gain a special place in theatre and social history
alongside the iconic Cecil Beaton, David Bailey and Tony Armstrong Jones. Will Cross’s tribute to McBean features over
60 photos of the famous stars, with anecdotes galore.
Talk from William Cross on Angus McBean (
1904-1990). Society, fashion and theatre photographer. A feast for the eye to behold of the
good,great and scandalous as captured by McBean’s cameras.
Grave of Agnes McBean
'Footprints on the sands of time'
William Cross is a writer, lecturer & researcher
based in Newport, South Wales. He is the author/ co- author of various books on members of the Morgan family of Tredegar
House, Newport, and several books on the Herberts ( Carnarvons ) of Highclere
Castle ( Downton Abbey ).
He is the author of 'Not Behind Lace Curtains' the controversial biography of Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar, and 'The Abergavenny Witch Hunt' the story of the prosecution and trial of over 20 homosexuals in a small Welsh Town in 1942, events centred around the same crimes that led at the sane time to Angus McBean being sent to prison for four years.
Cross is
currently working on further books on
the Morgans , including one about the notorious weekend house parties of Evan Morgan in the 1930s. Will’s last
books are “Myths About The Morgans: Busting the History Fraudsters”.
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