Writer Darren Campion considers the pivotal role of photography in sustaining a sense of belonging to a particular place, family or community for emigrants from the perspective of the family album.
Picturing Emigration
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Writing
Picturing Ourselves
Photography and the family album – essay by Darren Campion explores the social role of photography.
An evening with the photograph album
In her essay ‘An evening with the photograph album’ Stephanie McBride explores the ‘unconscious optics’ in our photo albums.
Pioneering Amateurs
Early amateur photographers were primarily drawn from the Landed Gentry. They had the necessary time and resources…
Popular photography – the arrival of the snapshot
Towards the end of the 19th Century the photographic landscape was radically altered by the introduction of new developments in photographic technology…
Colour Photography
Irish physicist John Joly – famous for his development of radiotherapy – developed one of the first colour photographic processes…
Studio Photography
Photography was the new wonder technology of its time, attracting entrepreneurs keen to cash in on public fascination…
Early photography in Ireland – an introduction
In Ireland, the first photograph was made of a bridge on the River Lagan in Belfast by Francis Stewart Beatty, a Belfast engraver, in September 1839…
Early photography in Ireland – an introduction
In Ireland, the first photograph was made of a bridge on the River Lagan in Belfast by Francis Stewart Beatty, a Belfast engraver, in September 1839…