John Deakin: Repeating the Process
Channel: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date: 23/09/2016

The Look First feature represents a different kind of article to its companions in British Art Studies; one that is pre-eminently visual and necessarily collaborative, and that is made possible by the digital format of the journal.  

In this series of short films made by Jonathan Law, the art historian James Boaden, and the curator of The John Deakin Archive, Paul Rousseau, discuss the double-exposure images made by the photographer John Deakin (1912-1972) in the 1950s and 1960s. 

The films ask you, firstly, to look closely at the images being discussed. Each one begins with a sustained and intense shot of a single image before opening up to a wide-ranging discussion about Deakin, double exposures, and photography. 

For more information, see http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-1/deakin-double-exposures