Posts Tagged ‘Classic photography’
Dublin as seen from the Dublin Mountains.
Baile Atha Cliath
Limited Edition Photograph : Lambda Print mounted on Dibond
Edition of 5
Size = 42 x 104 Inch
Dublin as seen from the Dublin Mountains : Baile Atha Cliath
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
Kidneys were in his mind as he moved about the kitchen softly, righting her breakfast things on the humpy tray.
Take Away Dublin : Leopold Bloom : James Joyce : Ulysses
Take Away Dublin : Leopold Bloom : James Joyce
Today is the birthday of James Joyce.
Caught on a winters sun.
Joyce’s birthday, 2 February, is also Candlemas Day and Ground Hog Day.
‘Songs of Joyce’ performed by “The Shannon Colleens” in Sweny’s Pharmacy : Lincoln Place : 2 February : Dublin 2011
Shannon Colleens :Joyce's Dublin : James Joyce Birthday Celebration 2011
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Got asked by some good friends to do a shoot based on the 50s’. Wild Child Originals has been around for some 20 years or so, having been in different premises around Dublin. After several moves, “First time I met the owner Will was in Galway some 15 years where he just had commisioned an iconic mural ” Jim Morrison, yr man from “The Doors” in “Shop Street” Galway”, Ah, these were the days.
They’ve just opened a new shop in Drury Lane , Dublin. Well worth a visit. There’s probably somebody you know, somewhere who’s wearing their funky clothes.
The Photographs were recently published in the Sunday Independent
Photography is based on Gil Elvgren
From the 30′s through the 70′s, Gil Elvgren produced over five hundred paintings of girls and women . Almost all of these works were oils on canvas, and fully developed finished works of art. He continued to surpass himself, always improving his ideas, composition, color, and technique.
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