jtk
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Looks like my darkroom.Bacon is one of my all-time favorite painters. I am unaware that he did any photography. His studio was famously chaotic.
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Ahhhh! A studio that looks like my darkroom! A place for everything and everything in its place. How inspiring?........Regards!Bacon is one of my all-time favorite painters. I am unaware that he did any photography. His studio was famously chaotic.
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Despite the title of this thread, I have yet to find any evidence that Francis Bacon did any photography. He was influenced by photography and worked from photographs (never life), but I haven't read anything about him actually taking pictures.
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Explain.Photography only incidentally involves making "photographs".
Explain.
he used xrays sometimes to aid with his drawings, is that what you mean ?For many on Photrio, "photography" mostly means camera ownership...
As far as I know, he did not make any of the photos that he used for his paintings I doubt he even owned or knew how to use a camera. Mostly he worked from scrap: newspaper, magazine and book clippings and photos taken by others at his request, mostly by John Deakin.he used xrays sometimes to aid with his drawings, is that what you mean ?
As far as I know, he did not make any of the photos that he used for his paintings I doubt he even owned or knew how to use a camera. Mostly he worked from scrap: newspaper, magazine and book clippings and photos taken by others at his request, mostly by John Deakin.
So even by the "Photrio" definition, he was not a photographer.
For many on Photrio, "photography" mostly means camera ownership...
I have no idea how this makes Francis Bacon a photographer, because he was photographed ?In other words, "meaning" of a word is not essence of a word. Neither Webster nor Oxford restrict themselves to absolutes.
Some anxiously deny that videographers are "photographers" ....but titles often credit them as "photographers." Some exhibitors in photo galleries restrict themselves to photolab trash and magazine cut-outs.
Only if they are analog photographs.And this makes Francis Bacon a photographer by using photos as the basis for his paintings?
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