Snapshot Stories

Photographers often depict Ireland with bucolic rural landscapes, but during the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras to create and curate photographs revealing more complex and diverse images of Ireland.

Snapshot Stories Uses diverse photographic archives, both professional and personal, to explore these stories.

Introduction: Visuality, Photography, and the Social History of Ireland, 1922-2000; 1 Beaches and Sunlight: Photograph Albums and Youthful Memories, c.

1922-1950; 2 Clasped Hands and Clear Complexions: Studio Portraits and Respectability, 1922-1960; 3 Dark Rooms and Developing Fluid: Amateur Photographers, Photographic Clubs, and the Irish Landscape, 1945-1970; 4 Community and Photography: Empowerment, Activism, and the Image, 1970-1990; 5 Flesh and Blood: Violence, Truth, and the Troubles, 1965-75; 6 Power and Place: Documentary Photography, Politics, and Perspective, 1970-1995; Conclusion: Digital Analogue Images and the Appearance of Historical Distance; Bibliography