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John Deakin: Queer Looks

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. John Deakin started his career as a dresser of shop windows and his images of windows set the scene for this discussion. The film explores Deakin’s double exposures in relation to the queer cultures of postwar London. Boaden and Rousseau discuss the ways in which the double exposure served as a metaphor for the idea of living a doubled life at a time when homosexuality was illegal. They explore the ambivalent character of such photographs as works that both reveal and conceal, bringing this idea up to the present by discussing the double exposures made by contemporary photographer Daniella Zalcman. Conversation between Paul Rousseau and James Boaden. Film by Jonathan Law. For more information, see http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-...