Cecil Beaton’s Mick Jagger: like a Rolling Stone from the 19th century

This 1967 photograph is one of the first taken of Jagger by royal snapper Cecil Beaton, who later created some of the most famous images of the rock starHere, Mick Jagger’s signature androgynous look recalls 19th-century writers he loved: the dandy Baudelaire, the doe-eyed, open-shirted Romantic Shelley. There’s an echo, too, of 1847’s girlish self-portrait by the pouting, long-haired teenage Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Continue reading...