Eamonn Doyle - ON *Blue Cover* Signed
Publisher: D1
Year: 2015
Format: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition, 999 Copies - Signed and Numbered
Condition: New
Pages: 104
Size: 38.5cm x 28.5cm
Eamonn Doyle’s second photo-book, ‘ON, follows ‘i’, a collection of street portraits from Dublin city centre. In ‘ON’, black and white figures stalk across Dublin streetscapes, by turns lost, menacing, wary, browbeaten or entranced – but always at odds in some way with their environment.
As in ‘i’, the photographs were mostly taken on Dublin’s Parnell Street and O’Connell Street. But here the historic role of those two streets as zones of resistance, protest and insurrection is far more present. The very title of the book itself evokes a resistance – that doggedly existential kind identified by Samuel Beckett’s narrator in ‘The Unnameable’: ‘You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.’