John Deakin News Today

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Stuart Maconie makes for a chatty, amiable travelling companion who would definitely stand a round in the pub and the portrait he paints of…

John Deakin was a drunkard who stumbled from bar to bar. But he was also a photographer, whose work provides the most significant record of the ‘School of London’ artists

Even in a new, semi-biographical book and film, the legendary Soho photographer is a wraithlike presence

During the various lockdowns I found myself wondering how Iain Sinclair was coping with the restrictions. It seemed unthinkable that this unflinching punisher of pavements could be stuck with 30 minutes round the park. But, as it turns out, sequestering, in a fashion that only the Scots word ‘thrawn’ can do justice to, has resulted

The author on his new book about photographer John Deakin, being at ease in his 80s – and walking amid London’s fast-moving phone zombies

John Deakin, photographer, ‘vicious little drunk’ and friend of Francis Bacon, is brought back to horrible life

Artist chose study to appear in first big retrospective in 1971. Dyer was found dead in couple’s hotel room 36 hours before show’s opening

Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of its modern and contemporary art sale.

In the southwest of England, the National Trust intends to establish extensive new temperate rainforests. In north Devon, almost 100,000 trees will be planted to make vast areas of damp woods suitable for endangered plant species.