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One of Deakin's mid-1960s portraits of George Dyer. The picture contains pathos for the doomed Dyer, and was retouched and spattered with paint by Bacon. Deakin was born in New Ferry on the Wirral, son of John Henry Deakin, a factory checker and machine minder for Lever Brothers at nearby Port Sunlight, and Elsie Mary, née Bond.
Apr 7, 2014 · Unknown woman, 1930s. Photograph: copyright 2014 John Deakin Archive. His circle of friends featured Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, and he took photos of Soho's artists, writers, drifters and ...
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Apr 7, 2014 · Photograph: John Deakin Archive. Deakin's reluctance to flatter his sitters (another characteristic he shared with Bacon) could sometimes shade into a deliberate attempt to undermine them.
To Barbara Hutton, Deakin was the ‘second nastiest little man’ she had ever encountered. Deakin was the perfect anti-hero of the tawdry Soho scene. George Melly called him ‘a vicious little ...
A complete human being was set before us, without additives." A number of exhibitions and books dedicated to Deakin’s works were published throughout the 1980s and 1990s. John Deakin is now recognised as one of the leading British photographers of his time. Soho. John Deakin was both participant and chronicler of the Soho scene in the 1950s ...
Feb 6, 2019 · After his marriage in 1801, John Deakin became an excise officer. He was stationed at Brentford, and later at various towns around England. and become the father of three more daughters: his only son William was born in Towchester in 1819. He and his wife died and were buried in Witney, Osfordshire in 1831 and 1852.
May 27, 2014 · Dog-eared and torn, they were found in boxes in his flat after he died, the modest but wonderful remains of Soho’s greatest chronicler. John Deakin and the Lure of Soho at the Photographers' Gallery until 13 July. John Deakin was lukewarm about his career as a photographer because his heart wasn’t in it. Really, he wanted to be a painter ...
