John Minihan: Portraits of the Artists

A major photographic exhibition, featuring over 30 iconic shots by renowned photographer John Minihan, will be on show from June 28 to July 18, 2007.

Minihan (born Dublin 1946 and now a West Cork resident) is one of Ireland’s most celebrated photographers, famous for literary portraits and landscapes. His forthcoming exhibition of black and white portraits will span four decades of his work, dating back to the early 60’s.

Amongst the work on exhibition will be never before published photographs of Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, William Burroughs, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Hendrix, the Who, the Clancy Brothers, Cecil Beaton, W.H. Auden, David Hockney, Al Pacino, Keith Richard, Ray Charles, Pierre Cardin, Gloria Swanson, and more recent images of artist John Kingerlee, Seamus Heaney and Louis Le Brocquy.

Peter Murray, Director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, will open the reception on Friday, June 29th from 6-8 pm.