#perry ogden

[davidhudson]

Happy 63rd, Ralph Fiennes.

1987 photo by Perry Ogden.

[80s-90s-fashionphotography]

Favorite big sister- Vogue Russia (1998)

Gisele Bundchen by Perry Ogden

[venusimleder]

Marie Claire, September 1998.

Ph. Perry Ogden

[guy60660]

Herno | Perry Ogden

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Christy Turlington by Perry Ogden

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[art-mirrors-art]

Peter Stark - Francis Bacon in his studio (1973) Bacon moved into 7 Reece Mews in 1961. A small former stable/coach house just off Old Brompton Road in South Kensington, London, became his home and studio until his death in 1992.

By the time of this photo the upstairs studio had already become legendarily famous because of its total chaos: Bacon did not allow any cleaning or even tidying of his art lair, and it was ankle-deep in paint-smeared rags, magazines, photos, slashed canvases, old brushes, books, dust, dust, and more dust.

Here is Bacon in his studio, caught by the camera of Michael Holtz in 1974:

With time the studio became only ever more chaotic; by 1980, when Jane Bown took this photo, there was barely any change in what this old mirror reflected.

The artist died in 1992. The studio was preserved in the state left by the artist and no one was allowed to change anything, including the dust accumulated for thirty years.

In 1998 it was decided to move the entire studio, in its full form and with all its mess (and dust), to Dublin, to the premises of the Hugh Lane Gallery (to which one of Bacon's heirs donated the entire studio contents).

Before this relocation the gallery hired Perry Ogden, a British photographer, to document in detail everything in this studio; this is just one of the pictures he took (from many hundreds later published as the book '7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio'):

The studio was measured and mapped, carefully dismantled, and then reconstructed in Dublin (the native town of Bacon) piece by piece (walls, doors, even dust and paint scrapings). It has been on display since 2001, so you can come and take the very same picture now as Ogden took in nearly thirty years ago:

The studio was measured and mapped, carefully dismantled, and then reconstructed in Dublin (Bacon's native city) piece by piece - walls, doors, even dust and paint scrapings. It has been on display since 2001. You can come there and take almost the same picture now as Ogden took nearly thirty years ago. PS: When Bacon once wrote 'Each day in the mirror I watch death at work', he likely meant this mirror.

[bienenkiste]

Sunniva Stordahl by Perry Ogden for Vogue Italia June 1998