In Camera: Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting
- Artist: Francis Bacon
- Published: First published 2006
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
- Edition: First Paperback
- Format: Paperback
- Height: 29cm
- Pages: 256
- Illustrations: 275 Illustrations, 200 in colour
£24.95
Add to basketIn Camera: Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting
Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In Camera, a bravura accomplishment of original research, reveals how these new media informed some of Bacon’s most important paintings and triggered decisive turning-points in his stylistic development.
Martin Harrison, who was granted unparalleled access to unpublished material, provides a new understanding of the creator of one of the most compelling bodies of work in twentieth-century art. Bacon’s painting is considered in the context of key influences – film directors such as Sergei Eisenstein, photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge and masters such as Velázquez and Picasso. His work is also reviewed in the context of his contemporaries, including Freud, Rothko and Sutherland.
Sharp analysis – chronological and thematic – leads to startling insights into this complex, tortured and hugely creative genius and into the unique iconography of his art.
With over 270 superb illustrations, including a broad range of source images and documents, many hitherto unknown, this Francis Bacon book addresses important questions about the artist’s practice and sheds new light on his life and work.
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Authors Biography
Martin Harrison has written numerous books including Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties and Young Meteors: British Photo-journalism 1957–1965.
Artists Biography
(b Dublin, 28 Oct 1909; d Madrid, 28 April 1992). English painter. One of the most individual, powerful and disturbing artists of the period following World War II, he took the human figure as his subject at a time when art was dominated by abstract styles, and he was also one of the first to depict overtly homosexual themes. Though largely self-taught, he was widely read and of great independence of mind. His subject-matter and procedures of painting are too personal to be imitated with any real success by other artists, but in Britain and further afield he remains a towering example to those dedicated to the depiction of the human figure.
