TY - BOOK AU - Darcy,Kathleen TI - Photographing the West: How ethnographic photography has helped shape the identity of the West of Ireland U1 - Thesis Painting 02/16 PY - 2016/// CY - Limerick : PB - Limerick Institute of Technology/Limerick School of Art and Design KW - Mespoulet, Marguerite. KW - Mignon-Alba, Madeline. KW - Lange, Dorothea. KW - Photography KW - Ireland KW - History KW - Identity KW - Painting theses KW - Extended essays KW - Painting KW - Theses KW - LSAD KW - Clare Street KW - Rural conditions N1 - Thesis submitted for B.A. (Hons) in Painting (Fine Art) 2016; Includes bibliographical references; This Final Year Project examines ethnographic photography. It questions how Ethnographic photography has helped shape the identity of the West of Ireland. Throughout the project photography captured in the Claddagh, Galway by Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeline Mignon-Alba in 1913 and images captured by Dorothy Lange in Ennis 1954 will be examined. The accuracy of these photographs will be questioned including how these images have impacted on Irish Identity to the present day. [Abstract] ER -