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English
Background information
"For centuries, all over the world, scrapbooks have been the most immediate and popular form of visual diary. In Northern Ireland, scrapbooks from the late 1960s through the early 1990s reflected 'The Troubles,' the regional conflict between Protestants and Catholics.
Content
Inspired by these highly individual collaged records of daily life--albums full of newspaper clippings, family photos and personal mementos--acclaimed Belfast-born Magnum photographer and filmmaker Donovan WYLIE, in collaboration with cultural historian Timothy Prus, has created a non-sectarian version of these scrapbooks, with the benefit of hindsight, that recounts Donovan WYLIE's own experience of growing up in Belfast in the 1970s and 1980s, as the son of a mixed marriage (his mother a Catholic, his father a Protestant), during a period when identification with one side of the religious divide was a presumed and sometimes deadly aspect of everyday life.
Additional information
This title is featured in 'The Photobook: A History Volume III' by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.
About the photographer, Donovan WYLIE (b. 1971 in Belfast)
Photo books by or with contribution by Donovan WYLIE
- Format
- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 29,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English