The People's Portraits 1899-1918
Artist
Amanda Dunsmore
Date2018
MediumOne hundred black and white digital archival prints on Canson Baryta 310sqm photographic paper
Dimensions24.1 × 18.7 cm (image)
Framed: 31 × 25 cm (each)
Installed in one block of 100, 5 up and 20 across, 90cm from floor with a 10cm horizontal gap and and 6.5 vertical gap.
Framed: 31 × 25 cm (each)
Installed in one block of 100, 5 up and 20 across, 90cm from floor with a 10cm horizontal gap and and 6.5 vertical gap.
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Purchased, 2019.
© Amanda Dunsmore.
Object number2084
DescriptionThe People’s Portraits 1899–1918 stems from Amanda Dunsmore’s time as artist in residence at the HM Prison Maze in 1998. The work comprises 100 printed portraits taken from late 19th and early 20th century of prisoners dating from before Ireland’s partition - the final date of the selection is 1918, before the partition of Ireland. The photos were selected from thousands of images in the Millisle prisoner photographic collection and were mainly taken at Armagh prison by two prison officers who were trained as photographers. The People’s Portraits 1899 - 1918 was first exhibited at Hugh Lane Gallery in 2018 as part of the exhibition Amanda Dunsmore: Keeper, which marked the 20-year anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.On View
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![No. 43 "Ploughing" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'Work on the Land' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18340/thumbnail)
![No . 44 "Drilling" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'Work on the Land' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18341/thumbnail)
![No. 46 "Potato-planting" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'Work on the Land' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18343/thumbnail)
![No. 3 "Poland a Nation" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'The Ideals' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/413/thumbnail)
![No. 45 "Burning couch-grass" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'Work on the Land' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18342/thumbnail)
![No. 47 "Timber-hauling" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'Work on the Land' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18344/thumbnail)
![No. 48 "Threshing" [From 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts And Ideals shown in a series of lithographic prints: 'Work on the Land' series]](/internal/media/dispatcher/18345/thumbnail)