Holy Pictures captures the last vestiges of popular devotional practices once widespread in Ireland. Tony Murray’s vivid images from the late 1970s and early 1980s are a compelling record of an aspect of Irish life that has largely disappeared. By turns poignant and surreal, the photographs depict pilgrims, devotees and true believers against the backdrop of a changing Ireland. An introduction by historian Daithí Ó Corráin and interview by photo historian Orla Fitzpatrick place these important images in context.
Holy Pictures Author: Tony Murray Foreword: Daithí Ó Corráin ISBN: 978-0-9569493-9-4 Format: Hardback, 263 x 246mm, landscape, 150gsm paper Extent: 208 pages with 156 duotone and 9 colour photographs Edition: 300 copies Weight: 1.5kg Published: April 2020 Design: Niall McCormack
This limited edition is produced in an edition of 10 copies with a signed and limited silver-gelatin print of ‘Boy dancing, St Colmcille’s Well, Woodtown, Dublin 1980’, hand printed by Tony Murray in the Gallery of Photography Ireland’s darkroom.
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Hand printed on 10 x 8 inch multigrade fiber base semi matt warmtone Ilford paper.
TONY MURRAY is a Fine Art graduate from the National College of Art and Design and a lecturer in Media Production and Photography at the Technological University of Dublin. The first photographer to receive an Arts Council bursary in 1978, he was one of a small group of young photographers who documented social and religious events in Ireland in the 1980s and 90s. He has exhibited widely in Ireland, England and France and his work has been published in many books and magazines. In addition to his photographic work, he has directed and produced a number of television documentaries and co-authored a text book on Irish politics.
Photographer Tony Murray printing limited edition of 10 prints, ‘Boy dancing, St Colmcille’s Well, Woodtown, Dublin 1980’ at Gallery of Photography Ireland
Hi Tone Books are publishers of high quality books on Irish popular culture and photography. Hi Tone Books is run by Dubliners Garry O’Neill and Niall McCormack. www.hitonebooks.ie
Surveying the spectrum of photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Photography: A Critical Introduction is the first book to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their proper social and political contexts. While most histories of photography invariably focus on the works of the “great photographers,” this book is written especially to provide a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing and its personal and cultural significance through history.
Holy Pictures with limited edition print by Tony Murray
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HOLY PICTURES
Tony Murray
Holy Pictures captures the last vestiges of popular devotional practices once widespread in Ireland. Tony Murray’s vivid images from the late 1970s and early 1980s are a compelling record of an aspect of Irish life that has largely disappeared. By turns poignant and surreal, the photographs depict pilgrims, devotees and true believers against the backdrop of a changing Ireland. An introduction by historian Daithí Ó Corráin and interview by photo historian Orla Fitzpatrick place these important images in context.
Holy Pictures
Author: Tony Murray
Foreword: Daithí Ó Corráin
ISBN: 978-0-9569493-9-4
Format: Hardback, 263 x 246mm, landscape, 150gsm paper
Extent: 208 pages with 156 duotone and 9 colour photographs
Edition: 300 copies
Weight: 1.5kg
Published: April 2020
Design: Niall McCormack
This limited edition is produced in an edition of 10 copies with a signed and limited silver-gelatin print of ‘Boy dancing, St Colmcille’s Well, Woodtown, Dublin 1980’, hand printed by Tony Murray in the Gallery of Photography Ireland’s darkroom.
Print details
Hand printed on 10 x 8 inch multigrade fiber base semi matt warmtone Ilford paper.
TONY MURRAY is a Fine Art graduate from the National College of Art and Design and a lecturer in Media Production and Photography at the Technological University of Dublin. The first photographer to receive an Arts Council bursary in 1978, he was one of a small group of young photographers who documented social and religious events in Ireland in the 1980s and 90s. He has exhibited widely in Ireland, England and France and his work has been published in many books and magazines. In addition to his photographic work, he has directed and produced a number of television documentaries and co-authored a text book on Irish politics.
www.tonymurray.ie
Photographer Tony Murray printing limited edition of 10 prints, ‘Boy dancing, St Colmcille’s Well, Woodtown, Dublin 1980’ at Gallery of Photography Ireland
Hi Tone Books are publishers of high quality books on Irish popular culture and photography.
Hi Tone Books is run by Dubliners Garry O’Neill and Niall McCormack. www.hitonebooks.ie
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Surveying the spectrum of photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Photography: A Critical Introduction is the first book to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their proper social and political contexts. While most histories of photography invariably focus on the works of the “great photographers,” this book is written especially to provide a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing and its personal and cultural significance through history.