Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Deakin NPG x135676

© estate of Daniel Farson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Farson

Wirral-born photographer Deakin is best-known for his uncompromisingly honest portraits of the bohemian Soho set of the 1950s, and particularly for the photographs taken for Francis Bacon, on which some of the artist's major works were based. Deakin wished to be a painter, although he earned a living as a staff photographer for Vogue during the 1940s and 1950s. His photographic career has been celebrated by the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition John Deakin: The Salvage of a Photographer (1984-85), the National Portrait Gallery... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.