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John Deakin (8 May 1912 – 25 May 1972) was an English photographer, best known for his work centred on members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle. Bacon based a number of famous paintings on photographs he commissioned from Deakin, including Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, [1] Henrietta Moraes on a Bed[2] and Three Studies of Lucian Freud. [3]
May 3, 2024 · One such place is London. In his latest book, Pariah Genius, Sinclair inhabits – fractiously – the mind of photographer John Deakin, whose images of life in Francis Bacon’s Soho have left a persistent burn on the cultural retina. Whether we know it or not, much of our understanding of Bacon and his friends has been rendered through Deakin ...
A psychobiographical exploration of Bacon and Freud's favourite photographer. Fag-stained, booze-drenched, stumbling and slurring: John Deakin captured the lows of Soho at its height.
Francis Bacon. John Deakin (8 May 1912 – 25 May 1972) was an English photographer, best known for his work centred on members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle. Bacon based a number of his paintings on photographs he commissioned from Deakin, including portraits of Henrietta Moraes and Lucian Freud. Deakin also spent many years in Paris ...
May 14, 2024 · Many of the photographs Deakin produced became the basis of Soho folklore, such as the iconic lunch scene featuring Timothy Behrens, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews ...
Apr 5, 1996 · Soho in the Fifties, a doomed, boho world, photographed by John Deakin and painted from his photos by Francis Bacon. As an exhibition of Deakin's work opens, one of the few survivors, Henrietta ...
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Jun 21, 2017 · Francis Bacon was one of the pre-eminent post-modernist painters of our times, while John Deakin, despite a prolific career as a photographer for British VOGUE, remains a relative unknown. Now, a series of exhibitions in London and a new book are providing an opportunity to reassess Deakin's work, in the process shedding significant light on the influence and inspiration photography had on ...
