Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi

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• Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (1924-2005), Sculptor and graphic artist. Sitter in 20 portraits, Artist of 14 portraits.

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• John Deakin (1912-1972), Photographer. Artist of 8 portraits, Sitter associated with 9 portraits.

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John Deakin was a photographer who worked for Vogue during the early 1950s before he was fired because of his dissipated lifestyle. His life propping up the bar in the pubs and clubs of Soho enabled him, however, to take extraordinarily unflinching photographs of a wide group of artists, writers and other bohemians, including Francis Bacon, who used his photographs as the basis for paintings, Lucian Freud, Dylan Thomas and Louis MacNeice. This photograph of the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi in his youth is characteristic of Deakin's work: full frontal and raw, it has been taken without using any tricks of the photographer's trade and instead relies on the relationship between photographer and sitter, creating an image of dark-eyed impassivity.

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• Freestone, Clare (appreciation) Wright, Karen (appreciation), Ida Kar Bohemian Photographer, 2011 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 March to 19 June 2011), p. 39
• Rogers, Malcolm, Camera Portraits, 1989 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 1989 - 21 January 1990), p. 263
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 208
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 208
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 479