Beyond The Moment (2 Viewers)

[pete]

Got this during the week. It's pretty deadly.

Destined to become a collector's item Beyond the Moment captures unforgettable images of Irish life. This is a remarkable, thought-provoking and memorable gathering of over 240 press photographs published in a single volume for the first time. Taken over the last 17 years by members of the Press Photographers Association of Ireland, these pictures, which include foreign assignments, were first published in the daily and weekly Irish newspapers.

Beyond the Moment records an Ireland that changed significantly over two decades in many areas - social, political and cultural. The pictures also reflect the fact that press photography itself underwent immense changes during that period, as it moved from black-and-white to colour and to the digital technology that underpins photojournalism today.

The final images were selected from over 6,000 photographs by Colin Jacobson, who drew from the extensive archive of submissions to the annual Irish press photographers’ awards, now known as the AIB PPAI Photojournalism Awards.
Booker prize-winner John Banville has written a masterful introduction to the anthology: an incisive meditation on what he describes as ‘the accidental art of photography’.

http://www.ppai.ie/books/beyond-the-moment/1/


You can get the real fancy slipcase edition for €60 (all of which goes to charity) here.

 

[classic seanc]

Wowzers.


Edit: Actually, theres some shocking photoshopping here and there, but for 95% of it, wowzers.

 

[classic seanc]

And they left out this:

 

[Shay HT]

Picked this up in Easons a while ago surprisingly cheap, €25 or something, really well put together, great book if you're into press or documentary photography.

 

[pete]

the brendan smyth photo is incredible

edit: this one

http://www.ppai.ie/books/beyond-the-moment/27/

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

deadly.