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Bill Doyle Retrospective

  • 17-02-2009 10:29am
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    CabanSail
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    The main corridor at Tallaght Hospital has spaces to display Art. The display seems to change twice a year. Yesterday a new display was installed. It is a selection of prints from the Bill Doyle Retrospective which have been superbly printed by Hetty Walsh

    I know this is a weird thing to say, but if you are near the Tallaght Hospital it's worth dropping in to see these images.


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  • #2
    CabanSail
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    I have just walked down & counted them, there are 20 images on display. The printing is superb, hand printed in the dark room.


  • #3
    Dodgykeeper
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    Work next door will drop by tomorrow and check them out!


  • #4
    Simplicius
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    I saw these in the Gallery Of Photography, brilliant and iconic, I particularily loved the boys near Fitzwilliam Sq with the carcass of a VW Beetle on a Horse and cart.

    Or the Punks in the Archway into temple bar by the hal'penny bridge.

    Well worth a trip to Tallaght to see and Hetty's gold toning of the prints is fantastic. Great lesson in why Film and Fibre still rocks for richness of tone.

    (saying no more unless I get branded as being from the Evil Axis of Analog) by the "G. W. Digital" brigade out there :p {G.W. isn't George W but Go With-- hee heee

    The book of these prints is still in thr Gallery of Photography, I actually think it is on sale.....

    Enough rambling for now


  • #5
    CabanSail
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    The book is available for €20 I believe.


  • #6
    Simplicius
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    CabanSail wrote: »
    The book is available for €20 I believe.

    a Bargain if ever ...........


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  • #7
    thebaz
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    CabanSail wrote: »
    The book is available for €20 I believe.

    thanks for the heads up Caban - bill doyle is one of my favorite irish photographers -


  • #8
    CabanSail
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    After seeing a recent documentary on him & now seeing these prints, he has become one of my favourites too.

    There is one image that I am quite taken by. It's a cloaked figure sitting on a pew in a church. Apparently Bill went in to say a prayer & saw this woman & the way the light was falling on her. He wished he had a camera with him, so he hurried home & got it. When he returned she was still in the same position & he got the shot.

    I can see where €20 of mine will be invested shortly.


  • #9
    thebaz
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    went to this yesterday, even in a manic hospital it was wondefull - made me think why he didn't get into Magnum ? certainly deserves it !!
    I believe he still enjoys a pint in town !
    anyway , thanks Caban


  • #10
    CabanSail
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    It is weird looking at a Photography Exhibition in a busy hospital.


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