A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film stills, and images from the media. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon’s most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist’s stylistic development. Key influences—including the masters Diego Velázquez, Nicolas Poussin, and Auguste Rodin; the photographer Eadweard Muybridge; and the film director Sergei Eisenstein—are given close consideration. Bacon’s work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists who made use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland, and Patrick Heron. With over 270 color illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon’s painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work.
Martin Harrison Ordre des livres






- 2022
- 2021
The fourth book in the acclaimed Francis Bacon Studies series, published under the aegis of The Estate of Francis Bacon.
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- 2020
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- 192pages
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- 2013
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- 95pages
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- 2011
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- 280pages
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1966, während ihrer kurzen Anstellung als Rezeptionistin bei Town and Country, erlangte Linda Eastman einen Presseausweis für ein exklusives PR-Event der Rolling Stones auf einer Jacht am Hudson River. Mit ihren frischen, natürlichen Fotos der Band, die die steifen Bilder des offiziellen Fotografen übertrafen, etablierte sie sich als Rock-’n‘-Roll-Fotografin. Zwei Jahre später, im Mai 1968, machte sie Geschichte, als ihr Porträt von Eric Clapton als erste weibliche Fotografin auf dem Cover von Rolling Stone erschien. Linda fotografierte zahlreiche bedeutende Musiker wie Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix und Bob Dylan. 1967 zog sie nach London, um die „Swinging Sixties“ festzuhalten, und lernte Paul McCartney im Club Bag O’Nails kennen. Ihre Liebe führte zur Hochzeit am 12. März 1969. In den folgenden drei Jahrzehnten widmete sie sich ihrer Familie, ihrer Fotografie und dem Einsatz für Vegetarismus und Tierrechte. Ihre Aufnahmen reichen von Familienschnappschüssen bis zu Studioaufnahmen mit Stars wie Stevie Wonder und Michael Jackson. Lindas Werke strahlen Wärme aus und fangen den Wesenskern ihrer Subjekte ein, stets unprätentiös und authentisch. Diese Retrospektive ist ein persönliches Zeugnis ihres Schaffens, entstanden in enger Zusammenarbeit mit ihrer Familie, einschließlich einleitender Texte von Paul, Stella und Mary McCartney.
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Draws on a broad range of source images and documents to discuss the role of photography, film stills, and mass-media imagery in some of Francis Bacon's most important paintings and stylistic development, in an account that places Bacon's work in a context of the mechanical reproduction process and the influences of his time.



