Small Town Portraits is the second publication of portrait photographs by Dennis Dinneen (1927–1985) taken in the back room of his pub, Dinneen’s Bar, Macroom, County Cork, between the 1950s and ‘70s. The first book accompanied the exhibition of Dinneen’s archive at Dublin’s Douglas Hyde Gallery in 2017. This new edition is the largest collection of the photographer’s work made available to the public to date, with over 70 reproductions, many printed here for the first time. The scale and tone of the publication reaches for Dinneen’s position in the canon of Irish twentieth-century photography, yet his untroubled, at times poignant, and inherently everyday images sit comfortably in the snug … Continue reading Book Review | Small Town Portraits: Dennis Dinneen