Small Town Portraits by Dennis Dinneen. Published by murmur books.
A book to be truly excited about. Forget the stuff that doesn't matter, the instagrammability, the 'popularity' and just look at some honest and good photographs. Dennis Dinneen's images restore my faith in photography, and what it should be. Dinneen set up a makeshift photographic studio in a backroom of his pub in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland. The result is a record of Macroom's community from the 50's - 70's, capturing everything from family portraits, Communions, Weddings and even passports and driving licences. The images have a rare authenticity that when you find it in photography is truly special.
Honorable Mentions:
The Eye of War: Ukraine 1941/42 by Dieter Keller
Midnight La Frontera by Ken Light
Rachel Barker is Co-Founder of STANLEY/BARKER, a highly respected publishing house based in the UK which produces a list of truly unique photography publications, including Mark Steinmetz Carnival, Trent Parke The Crimson Line and Tod Papageorge Studio 54. Several of which have been selected for awards, including Judith Black Pleasant Street – Shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo Aperture Book awards, Sunil Gupta, Christopher Street 1976, Shortlisted for the 2019 Paris Photo Aperture Book awards, The Lucie Photo Book Prize and Les Rencontres d'Arles book Award, and Tod Papageorge Studio 54, shortlisted for the 2015 Paris Photo Aperture Book awards
Rachel graduated from Central Saint Martins, Byam Shaw School of Art, and went on to work with companies such as Blurb, Prestel publishing and as Head of Marketing and PR for Leica Camera before founding STANLEY/BARKER with her husband Gregory Barker.
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