New exhibition puts focus on Irish photography
Photography has long been a neglected area of Irish art. The National Gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the discipline is beginning to redress that, writes .
WHEN the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning first laid eyes on a daguerreotype in the early 1840s, it was a revelation. Of the first successful forms of photography, she wrote that the depictions were so true that she “would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced”.
