Dublin Photographic Studios and the Medical Press of the 1860s

Recorded November 30, 2023. A lecture by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick
(Ireland's Border Culture Project, Trinity College Dublin) as part
of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series in association
with Trinity Long Room Hub. During the 1860s, photographic studios
such as Allen of Westland Row, Foster of Westmoreland Street and
Lawrence of Sackville Street provided the source imagery for
articles in the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. In an
era before the advent of photo-mechanical reproduction, the images
were published as woodcuts or lithographs or sometimes original
prints were tipped into the journal. The paper will also survey the
reviews and references to international photographically
illustrated publications which appeared in the Dublin press. Dr
Orla Fitzpatrick is a Research Fellow working with Professor Eve
Patten, Trinity College Dublin and Garrett Carr, Queen’s University
Belfast, on a HEA Shared Island North-South Research Programme
project ‘Ireland’s Border Culture: Literature, Arts, and Policy.’
Dr Fitzpatrick attained a PhD from Ulster University on the topic
of modernity, modernism and Irish photography, 1922 to 1949. Her
book Lost Ireland was published by Rizzoli and Pavilion in 2021.
She curated 'Imaging Conflict: photographs from revolutionary era
Ireland,' a major exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland
which opened in October 2022. This looked at the production and
consumption of photographic images in conflict situations. Learn
more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/