The Photography Sales Gallery at the Centre for British Photography presents vintage works by John Deakin until the 18th of October.
Here is the text coming with the pictures :
The photographs offered here were unknown and believed lost until their recent rediscovery and include previously unrecorded works as well as more familiar pictures. Taken together these familiar and unfamiliar images provide an insight into one of the most acclaimed aspects of Deakin’s work, his street photographs, as well as also including unpublished pictures of the Moulin Rouge and of Pablo Picasso.
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 and Rome, photographing street scenes. His only stable period of employment as a photographer were two periods of working for Vogue between 1947 and 1954. Deakin showed little interest in curating and publicising his own work, holding only two exhibitions of photography in his lifetime. As a result many of his photographs were lost, destroyed or damaged over time. A chronic alcoholic, Deakin died in obscurity and poverty.
John Deakin’s Paris
Online until October 18, 2024
Centre for British Photography
www.britishphotography.org
