Eyewitness by Padraig Kennelly

Eyewitness by Padraig Kennelly

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Zusammenfassung

The camera celebrates its 170th birthday in 2009. To mark this occasion, the Kennelly family is making available its extensive collection of black & white photos which capture Irish people, towns, villages and scenic locations. From his earliest days as a photographer, Padraig Kennelly believed today's photography is tomorrow's history.

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Eyewitness by Padraig Kennelly

Over 240 images, many of them previously unpublished, feature in a new book showcasing the work of Kerry-based photographers Padraig Kennelly and his late wife Joan. EYEWITNESS has 256 pages of rich black-and-white photo reproductions. They cover the first twenty years (1953-1973) of the photographic careers of Padraig and Joan. The Kennellys covered every sort of assignment from painful tragedy to the burgeoning social scene of 1950s Ireland. The book contains stirring images including: * The moment Mossy Moore's body was found buried in a drain near Tralee in November 1958. John B. Keane claimed the mystery, still an unsolved murder, inspired his play, The Field. * Sean Bourke's triumphant arrival back to Ireland in October 1968 after springing spy George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs Prison where they had spent time. * Controversial movie star Jayne Mansfield in Tralee after her 1967 concert had been cancelled, following a campaign by Bishop of Kerry Dr Moynihan urging people not to attend. * An August 1966 unposed photograph of Aran-sweater-clad former Taoiseach, the late Charles J. Haughey, enjoying a meal of freshly-caught lobster aboard a trawler off Ballydavid. THE KENNELLY ARCHIVE The Kennellys' entire photographic collection is being painstakingly scanned, retouched and captioned as part of the Kennelly Archive Project, which began in 2006. Some of the photographs taken by Padraig and Joan Kennelly were published in magazines and newspapers throughout the world, but most have never been published. The photographic collection has been donated by the Kennelly family and Kerry's Eye to the Kennelly Archive, a newly-formed charitable foundation. All of the photo images made by Padraig and his late wife Joan are being made available through www.kennellyarchive.com. The website goes live on 29 October 2009 with 150,000 images.

'The pictures tell more than words could ever do'

* Irish Examiner *

'It is the breadth and diversity in topic [..] that makes the Kennelly archive so compelling'

* Irish Arts Review *

'Astounding and beautiful'

* The Sunday Business Post *

'A rich and mesmerising social history'

* Sunday Tribune *

'Fascinating images'

* Irish Independent *

Eighty-year-old photojournalist Padraig Kennelly is founder and editor of Kerry's Eye newspaper. Founded in 1974, it is one of Ireland's most successful provincial newspapers. He continues to write trenchant editorials on local and national issues. He carefully filed the photographs he took over his 50-year plus career.

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ISBN 13 9781848890220
ISBN 10 1848890222
Titel Eyewitness
Autor Padraig Kennelly
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Gill
Erscheinungsjahr 2009-09-01
Seitenanzahl 256
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