Ireland: Singular Images

By Donovan Wylie

Donovan Wylie reveals the joys and the sorrows of the whole of Ireland in a brilliant selected sequence of images of the people, the buildings, and the landscape, in short everything that makes up the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0233988998
• ISBN13: 9780233988993
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

A great book from an up-and-coming photographer

"Singular Images" is a delightfully simple photographic exploration of Ireland made by young Donovan Wylie. His pictures are graceful and poetic, yet they have a definite solidity about them...an air that is quite of the essence of the Magnum Photo Agency, of which he is a part. At the early age of 16, he made the pictures in this book; pictures that many seasoned professionals would trip over themselves trying to create. This body of Wylie's work has a sense of innocence, and it's apparent through these marvelous photographs. The photographs themselves have a definite "street" feel. His wanderings take him all over the place, but his pictures have a beautiful coherency. They are merely gritty, black and white documents of his travels. One thing is for sure, this Gen-X photographer has a bright future ahead of him. At the age of 21, he was made a nominee of the Magnum Photo Agency, then an associate member two years later. In many ways, he is the future of what Magnum will be. Keep an eye on this lad, he's the next in a long line of photographers from the Magnum Agency, whose members include Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliot Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Eugene Richards, Gilles Peress, James Nachtwey...just to name a few.