John Deakin (1912-1972), Photographer

Sitter associated with 9 portraits
Artist of 8 portraits
Photographer of Bohemian London life in the 1940s and 1950s; photographer for Vogue, later turned to painting; photographic career celebrated in Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, John Deakin: The Salvage of a Photographer (194-5); known also particularly for the photographs taken for Francis Bacon, on which some of the artist's major works were based.