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Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author,
clothbound and slipcased with a 1904 penny inset on the cover. In
1904, the sending, receiving and collecting of postcards had become
an essential part of life in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few
private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of
communication - in Dublin there were six mail deliveries a day, and
one on Sunday. To celebrate James Joyce and the centenary of
Bloomsday, Niall Murphy has assembled a dazzling selection of 240
postcards, all of them posted in the Dublin area during 1904, four
of them sent on 16 June that year. Here are the messages of
ordinary people who walked the streets of Dublin side-by-side with
the characters of Ulysses, with their words eerily mirroring the
novel's events. There is a rescue from drowning in Kingston; crime
and punishment in Grafton Street; the Great Storm of 1903; King
Edward's visit; and memories of a 'departed day' spent in Howth.
Among the many tales of love, three are enacted in varying degrees
of intimacy: Millicent and Francisque de Boissieu, Jack Miller and
Maud Tighe, and Ina and John McGregor - echoing Joyce's use of
postcards to establish the blossoming romance between Milly Bloom
and Alec Bannon. Published in association with the National Library
of Ireland, 'A Bloomsday Postcard' features the work of the
legendary postcard artists - Louis Wain's strange human cats; Lance
Thackery's satires of upper-class life; and C. Dana Gibson's
exquisite drawings of beautiful women. Here also are cards
depicting the Russo-Japanese War, Yukon gold miners, the Dublin
Horse Show, and life in Connemara - creating a mesmerizing
full-colour mosaic that brings to life the world of Bloomsday, 1904
like never before.
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For ten years, Prix Pictet has been inviting artists to tackle
multi-faceted themes on the topic of sustainability. During its
first decade, some 4,200 photographers have presented over 28,000
images to the jury, and the public has enjoyed 92 exhibitions in 40
cities across the world. Each of the seven cycles has unearthed
powerful images that speak to today's vast environmental, societal,
and cultural challenges. Featuring work from all of the winning
photographers to date — Benoit Aquin, Nadav Kander, Mitch
Epstein, Luc Delahaye, Michael Schmidt, Valerie Belin, and Richard
Mosse — and many of the shortlisted artists, ten is a celebration
of the outstanding photography that has been showcased by the Prix
Pictet over the past decade. Readers embark on a poignant visual
journey through a carefully curated selection of compelling images,
venturing into a world defined by our complex relationship with our
environment. The photographs, some of which have not previously
been published or exhibited by the Prix Pictet, have been grouped
into twelve themes. Photojournalistic or conceptual in nature, the
images are fantastically diverse and tell a powerful story of some
of the most critical problems facing modern society.
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