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Ireland in Prints
Photographs by Bill Doyle
March 7 through July 2008
Monday – Friday,
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Featuring the work of renowned Irish photographer Bill Doyle, this exhibition captures the landscape and people of Ireland in a series of hauntingly beautiful photographs.
Bill Doyle was born in Dublin in 1926 and still lives there today. From an early age he was involved in photography but did not take it up as a fulltime career until 1967 when he won the Daily Telegraph Magazine Photographer of the Year Award. This was a major achievement for an Irish photographer at the time and was awarded to Bill for his collection of photographs taken on the Aran Islands (many of which form part of this exhibition).
Bill Doyle is well known in Ireland, not only as a photographer, but also as a lecturer in photography and photo-journalism. He has won three Carrolls Press Awards and was the winner of the Irish Independent Newspaper’s Irelands Eye Photography Competition. He has also won numerous awards and competitions in Japan, Germany, England and the United States.
As well as publishing a number of books of his own photographic work, Bill’s photographs have been used to illustrate the work of others, including books of poetry and album covers. His work has been featured in many magazines, including Cairde and Aer Lingus inflight magazine Cara as well as being exhibited all over the world.
His books of photography include: Ireland of the Proverbs, The Aran Islands - Another World, The Magic And Mystery of Ireland, Island Funeral, Images of Dublin... A Time Remembered.
"Even though Bill Doyle presents us with single images, you can hear the sounds of the islands."
Muiris Mc Conghail |
"The fine vision of Bill Doyle fills my eyes and warms my heart. Bill Doyle has the vision and can record it."
Benedict Kiely
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"…black and white photographs by well-known photographer Bill Doyle have the same timeless archetypal quality as the proverbs, conveying in economical visual images the accumulated life
of Ireland’s ancient culture."
Publishers Weekly
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 Irish Travellers
An Exhibition of Photographs
by Alen MacWeeney
Through February 29
Monday – Friday,
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
In 1965, Alen MacWeeney came upon an encampment of itinerants or Travellers in a waste ground by the Cherry Orchard Fever Hospital in Dublin. MacWeeney was captivated by their independence, individuality, and endurance, despite the bleakness of their circumstances. Accepted by the Travellers, he began to take photographs. Over five years, he spent countless evenings in their caravans and by their campfires, drinking tea and listening to their tales, songs, and music – resulting in this beautiful collection of photographs.
Alen MacWeeney was born in Dublin in 1939 and came to the United States at age 21 to become assistant to renowned photographer Richard Avedon. He has contributed to the New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. His photographs are in over sixty public collections in the U.S. and Europe, including M.O.M.A., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of five books of photography.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF KIT DEFEVER
September, October,
November, December
Kit DeFever combines ancient memories of his ancestors
and a revolutionary IRIS Giclée print technology to produce
images that celebrate the enduring qualities of the beauty
and emotion of Ireland. A celebrated fashion portraitist, DeFever’s work has appeared in numerous national and
international publications, including Vogue, Mademoiselle,
Image, Stern, Irish Americaand World of Hibernia.
 FIGHTING IRISHMEN
Celebrating Celtic Prizefighters 1820–Present
Curated by James J. Houlihan, Honorary Chair Liam Neeson
In association with South Street Seaport Museum
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Following a hugely successful run at the Irish Arts Center, this eclectic collection of boxing photography and artifacts was also exhibited at the South Street Seaport Museum in downtown Manhattan and at Boston College in 2008.
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Fighting Irishmen: Fighters & Family
Tuesday, November 20
6:00pm to 9:30pm
Featuring:
Jay Tunney, author & son of boxer Gene Tunney
Dave Anderson, NY Times sportswriter
Tim Conn, son of boxer Billy Conn
Doug Graham, son of boxer Billy Graham
Charlie Sharkey, great grand nephew of "Sailor" Tom Sharkey
For tickets and information call
Carol Rauscher at the South Street Seaport
Museum at 212.748.8776.
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