Title: Girl with Bicycle, Dublin, 1966
Date: 2005
Medium: Dye transfer print
Dimensions:41.6 x 33.5 cm
Sheet: 50 x 40 cm
Credit Line: Purchased, 2019
Object Number: NGI.2019.182
DescriptionGerman-American documentary and portrait photographer, Evelyn Hofer spent her early years studying photography, eventually landing a role working for Alexey Brodovitch of Harper's Bazaar when she moved to New York in 1946. Hofer used a four-by-five-inch view camera to make orderly and well-constructed portraits and scenic photographs. Hofer visited Dublin in 1966 to capture scenes of everyday life, which informed her book Dublin: A Portrait (1967) made in collaboration with author V.S. Pritchett. In colour and black and white, her work depicts Ireland at the tipping point between an older, more conservative culture and the emerging modern world. Hofer is represented by 7 photographs of Dublin in the NGI collection.
Here, a young girl straddles a high nelly bicycle in Coombe. This photograph was featured in the 2019 exhibition, View of Ireland: Collecting Photography at NGI.
ProvenancePurchased, Estate of Evelyn Hofer, through Galerie m, Bochum, Germany, 2019
Exhibition HistoryView of Ireland, National Galery of Ireland, Dublin, 25 October 2019 – 2 February 2020
Evelyn Hofer. Early Color Photography, Galerie m Bochum, Germany, 17 July - 22 July 2015