Ireland: On the Edge of Europe - Hardcover

Pataux, Agnes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8874390297 ISBN 13: 9788874390298

Publisher: 5 Continents Editions Srl, 2006

Synopsis

AgnSs Pataux has travelled extensively throughout Ireland, photographing its ancient, majestic, nature-dominated landscapes. Her photographs intense and solitary speak to us of the primordial forces of nature, forces that have shaped both the extraordinary natural environs and the psyche of an enduring people, the Irish. Pataux is bound to particular sites, attracted by geological formations and manmade phenomena: the famine walls of the 1840s; the rugged Burren coast, blanketed in grey limestone, crisscrossed by splits and cracks that form a haunting geometry; Connemara with its wild and desolate bogs; County Antrim where nature has created the monolithic, hexagonal-shaped stone pavements of the mythological Giant's Causeway; and the coasts of the Aran Islands with their high cliffs beaten and broken by endless waves. Finally, the portraits of the men of these Emerald Islands show a people profoundly marked by their environment one that has shaped the people, the one that the people in turn have

About this title

About the Author:

Agnès Pataux is a teacher and photographer. Her work has been exhibited in France, Italy, and Ireland. Colm Tóibín is a journalist and author of The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night, and The Blackwater Lightship.

Review:

"This delightful book...is both interesting and heart warming...a wondrous experience for the reader to cherish." -- Shutterbug

About this edition

• Publisher: 5 Continents Editions Srl
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8874390297
• ISBN 13: 9788874390298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136