These vintage photographs offer a rare insight into one of the central aspects of Deakin's work, his street photographs, as well as including unpublished photographs of Picasso in his studio.
In contrast to his celebrated portraits of Francis Bacon and other Soho luminaries, Robin Muir writes that "Deakin's street photographs appear mostly to have slipped from view... Dan Farson …
In contrast to his celebrated portraits of Francis Bacon and other Soho luminaries, Robin Muir writes that "Deakin's street photographs appear mostly to have slipped from view... Dan Farson lamented particularly the loss of his series on the 'clochards', the down-and-outs of Paris." Fortunately, this new exhibition reveals several of these "lost" photographs which are …