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Portraits of a Nation at War

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
September 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Timothy O’Sullivan’s “Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery B, Petersburg, Virginia,” which is one of the few “action” shots of the Civil War.

An exhibition on the Civil War, featuring photographs by Mathew Brady, Timothy O’Sullivan and others, and a new biography of Brady, are reviewed by Tom Deignan. One of the most chilling portraits in the exhibition “Photography and the American Civil War” – which just finished a five-month run at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – is also one of the most seemingly … [Read more...] about Portraits of a Nation at War

A Sacred Place: Skellig Michael

By Chris Ryan, Contributor
April / May 2013

March 20, 2013 by 9 Comments

Photographer and writer Chris Ryan visited the larger of the two Skellig Islands off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, where an early-medieval monastery survives at the edge of the material world. Start at the Dublin offices of Google or Facebook, drive to the southwest tip of Ireland, hop a boat, journey seven miles out to sea, and climb 600 steps clinging to the edge of … [Read more...] about A Sacred Place: Skellig Michael

From Clare to Here: A Journey in Photographs

October / November 2012

September 25, 2012 by 3 Comments

Christy McNamara, a photographer and traditional musician from Crusheen, Co. Clare, has been capturing images of Ireland for over 20 years. From up-close portraits of some of Ireland’s best-known musicians, including U2, The Pogues, and a number of traditional artists, to scenes from the annual Spancill horse fair and close-ups of life in rural Ireland, McNamara has a gift for … [Read more...] about From Clare to Here: A Journey in Photographs

Galway Celebrates Photograph’s Irish Connection

By Sheila Langan, Deputy Editor
August / September 2012

July 17, 2012 by 4 Comments

It’s an iconic image of the building of America: Eleven construction workers on a break for lunch, happily chatting away on a girder balanced some 800 feet above New York City. The photograph, taken during the construction of the RCA building (now the GE building) in Rockefeller Center, ran in the October 2, 1932 edition of the New York Herald. For all its enduring popularity … [Read more...] about Galway Celebrates Photograph’s Irish Connection

Landscapes of the Heart

By Eoghan Kavanagh, Photographer
June / July 2012

May 16, 2012 by 6 Comments

Photographer Eoghan Kavanagh on the Irish landscape. I began to work as a freelance photographic assistant in New York City twenty years ago. It was a wonderful opportunity but I could not settle, and eventually I returned to Ireland.  What I did not know then, but I know now, is just how powerful a draw the Irish countryside has for me. A short while after I returned, I … [Read more...] about Landscapes of the Heart

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