Melancholy Witness: Images of the Troubles
Editorial THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
Mainland Spain
- Publisher THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
- ISBN13 9781845889975
- ISBN10 1845889975
- Type Book
Sections
Universal History ContemporaryMelancholy Witness: Images of the Troubles
Editorial THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The photographs are like black and white time machines that bring back the desolation and danger of the Troubles. The images have a documentary accuracy, but it is the aura of melancholy witness that marks them as the work of Sean Hillen. --Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize recipient
Striking, haunting sometimes bleakly beautiful: a record of historical importance but also much more. --Roy Foster, author, The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland
Melancholy Witness is the published collection of the images of Sean Hillen's lauded exhibition of photography, documenting the years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Combining personality with documentary history, what emerges is a powerful and compelling story of unrest, beauty and change.