Look of the Irish: the communities captured by Tony O’Shea – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/oct/27/irish-communities-tony-o-shea-photographer-retrospective-colm-toibin-du
Four decades of work by the Irish photographer feature in a new photobook. His dignified images, according to his former editor Colm Tóibín, offer ‘a hesitant window into the soul’
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The big picture: magical realism in everyday Dublin | Photography | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/25/the-big-picture-magical-realism-in-everyday-dublin
he Irish writer Colm Tóibín was first introduced to the photographs of Tony O’Shea when he was an editor at a magazine called In Dublin back in the late 1970s. O’Shea was in the habit of coming to the magazine’s office every other Friday with a cardboard box containing a fortnight’s black-and-white prints, pictures he’d taken around the city’s streets. The photographs, Tóibín observed, in the introduction to their landmark collaborative book of 1990, Dubliners, “were like nothing I’d ever seen”. He looked forward to O’Shea’s arrival, and each time, though the magazine might be going to press, found himself “taking the cardboard box away with me, looking through the photos again and again on my own and wondering about them”.