Daniel Farson, Soho in the Fifties
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Farson, Daniel. Soho in the Fifties. Third Printing. 1988. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Introduction by George Melly.
This book captures the alcohol-soaked, gritty feel of London’s Soho in all its pre-gentrification splendor. Art critic and journalist Daniel Farson lived in Soho in the 1950s and was intimately-acquainted with its major players—drinking with them from noon through the early hours of the next morning. He was a friend and biographer of Francis Bacon, and his profile in this book of Bacon is excellent. Farson also includes images and profiles of David Archer, John Deakin, Nina Hamnett, and Lucian Freud. Regarded as Farson’s best book, it is also his most uncommon.
“This splendid book, despite its rather matter-of-fact title, is really about a love affair. It begins with a young man, fresh from Cambridge and heading, as if by instinct, towards a district that would never let him go.”
--George Melly
This book captures the alcohol-soaked, gritty feel of London’s Soho in all its pre-gentrification splendor. Art critic and journalist Daniel Farson lived in Soho in the 1950s and was intimately-acquainted with its major players—drinking with them from noon through the early hours of the next morning. He was a friend and biographer of Francis Bacon, and his profile in this book of Bacon is excellent. Farson also includes images and profiles of David Archer, John Deakin, Nina Hamnett, and Lucian Freud. Regarded as Farson’s best book, it is also his most uncommon.
“This splendid book, despite its rather matter-of-fact title, is really about a love affair. It begins with a young man, fresh from Cambridge and heading, as if by instinct, towards a district that would never let him go.”
--George Melly
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