John Deakin - Wikipedia
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]
John Deakin - Francis Bacon
John Deakin (12 May 1912- 25 May 1972) was an accomplished portrait, fashion and street photographer. His style, especially in portraiture, is characterized by a blunt immediacy which is often amplified by tight cropping and extreme tonal contrasts.
‘Pariah Genius: John Deakin, The Psychobiography of a …
Fag-stained, booze-drenched, stumbling and slurring: John Deakin captured the lows of Soho at its height. He was the photographer of choice for Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and all the other...
John Deakin - Overview | The Hyman Collection
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 …
John Deakin - Overview - CENTRE FOR BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY
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 …
John Deakin - Overview | James Hyman Gallery
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 …
The John Deakin Archive: 60s Soho and the London Art Scene
John Deakin was both participant and chronicler of the Soho scene in the 1950s and 1960s. This was Soho at its most grimy and glamorous. His more famous photographs feature well-known British artists and writers of the time, including Francis Bacon’s Soho inner circle.
John Deakin - Michael Hoppen Gallery
John Deakin (1912-1972), portraits are among the most significant in the history of 20th century photography. His clarity of vision had a merciless, often brutal directness and a psychological intensity, both fascinating and shocking in equal measure.
John Deakin - Person - National Portrait Gallery
Wirral-born photographer Deakin is best-known for his uncompromisingly honest portraits of the bohemian Soho set of the 1950s, and particularly for the photographs taken for Francis Bacon, on which some of the artist's major works were based.
EXHIBITION: Pariah Genius: John Deakin, The Psychobiography of …
Curated by the great London writer Iain Sinclair, Pariah Genius: John Deakin, The Psychobiography of a Photographer presents a rare and unique opportunity to see original prints by Deakin once owned by Francis Bacon plus works by Jock McFadyen, Susan Stenger and Anonymous Bosch.