Irish Travellers

Alen MacWeeney
9780615415024 / 615415024
Irish Travellers

Irish Travellers

Alen MacWeeney
9780615415024 / 615415024
Publisher Andrew Ward Fine Art Photographs
Edition Paperback , 128 Pages
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Publisher's description

For over five years, Dublin-born Alen MacWeeney (born 1939) photographed the native itinerants of Ireland known as Travellers, spending countless evenings in their caravans and by their campfires, drinking tea and listening to their tales, songs and music. In a memoir of this period, the photographer describes his attraction to the lifestyle of his companions: “Theirs was a bigger way of life than mine, with its daily struggle for survival, compared to my struggle to find images symbolic and representative of that life.” With Irish Travellers, MacWeeney has crafted a profoundly beautiful record of a slowly vanishing way of life rarely seen by outsiders, let alone captured by a camera. Author and winner of the Man Booker prize John Banville compared Irish Travellers to “Edward Curtis’s masterly recuperation of the American Indian.” Alen MacWeeney’s photographs are essential records of a vanishing culture.

Specifications

Book title Irish Travellers
Photographer Alen MacWeeney
ISBN 10 615415024 / 0-615-41502-4       
ISBN 13 9780615415024 / 978-0-615-41502-4
Publisher Andrew Ward Fine Art Photographs
Publish date Jul 2011
Book format Paperback
Pages 128 Pages
Dimensions 24,25 x 28,5 cm / 9.5 x 11.25 inches

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