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.
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
Diane Arbus Revelationsaffords the first opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of what is a wholly original force in photography. Arbus’s frank treatment of her subjects and her faith in the intrinsic power of the medium have produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Presenting many of her lesser-known or previously unpublished photographs in the context of the iconic images reveals a subtle yet persistent view of the world.
Brassai (1899–1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that forms the bedrock of his body of work.
Walking the city’s streets at night, Brassai captured a previously unseen world on camera. He shows us every face and every facet, from tough guys and showgirls to prostitutes and pleasure-seekers, from the bustling cafés and dance halls to the stillness of deserted streets and mist-shrouded monuments. Through his eyes, Paris becomes a world of shadows, in which light, the prerequisite for any photograph, is reduced to dimly lit windows, streetlamps in the fog, or reflections on a rain-soaked pavement.
This book brings together some of the best-known images from Brassai’s classic Paris After Dark and The Secret Paris of the 30’s, showcasing them alongside previously unpublished photos and archive material. It places his work in its historical and artistic context, analyzing the unique nature of his photographic vision: part reportage, part social document, part poetic exploration. 296 illustrations, 214 in duotone
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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