Firstly, Beaton's experience during the war had contributed to the amazing work that he has processed. The Second World War challenged Beaton. He had set out deliberately in his early twenties to establish himself as a darling of society and a leading portrait photographer. By his mid-thirties, he had succeeded. However, during this time it was one of the most surprising turns of his career. Beaton was commissioned to take pictures of the war. Many of the images from this war show the resilience of the British coping with the threat and reality of enemy action. From this period Beaton took many images, some of these images include the faces of pilots and Prime Minister. After the British victory in 1942, the Air Ministry sent him to the Near East to photograph th

Lastly, Influences had an impact on Beaton's career. Beaton was first influenced to do what his heart sets by E.W. Freeborn, his housemaster at Bradby's. Freeborn was a mathematician with enthusiasm for theatre and art. Freeborn encouraged Beaton, leading him to dedicate his life to photography. Freeborn taught Beaton many useful techniques that would be an advantage to Beaton in the future. "I learnt to paint water colours of bluebell woods. In exactly the same matter as my master" (p ) Another influence that had a great impact on Beaton's career was Lily Elisie, a musical comedy actress. At age three Beaton glimpsed at a picture of her and was mesmerized by the beauty that she portrayed. That was the beginning moment of his obsession with fashion and beauty; this further led to his career in portraiture.

Secondly, beaton's sense of style led him to becoming a very well known photographer.

e German forces and to record the activities of the armed services there like the fighting, the devastation and the personalities. Out of the assignment came such famous compositions such as the photographs of burnt-out German tanks and of military commanders. The war had given Beaton a new sense of style. It had shown him the worse that life can be. "The war had given me an incentive to step out towards new photographic horizons, and to point my camera at more rugged aspects of life" (p12, )

With his experience with the war

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