[Art] The Luas Chronicle

Victor

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http://www.rpa.ie/?id=13

PRESS RELEASE

The Luas Chronicle

Dominique Davoust – a very successful creative advertising photographer ,who has worked as a war photographer in Lebanon- has spent the last year walking along the Luas tracks in Dublin, capturing unique moments in the life of the city along the Red and Green Lines.

Fifty of his striking black and white panoramic photographs have been assembled into a unique exhibition: The Luas Chronicle. This exhibition will be initially shown to the public at the Tallaght Civic Centre from Monday 25 th to Saturday 30th July, 2005. Admission is FREE.

The work is very atmospheric and captures subtle and unusual visions of Luas and how it is connecting with the urban landscape that is 21st Century Dublin.

Dominique Davoust, is now based in Dublin but carries out international photographic assignments in many settings and locations. For instance, he recently worked with Angelina Jolie in the Sahara Desert as a still photographer and coordinator on her production, “A MOMENT IN THE WORLD”.

In 2000 Davoust mounted a similar project in France. “Paris Surface” was a photographic promenade in the streets over the Paris Metro Number 4 Line. This work received considerable critical and media acclaim and was also very well received by the French public.

In Luas Chronicle the tram is not always present in the photographs, but sometimes as a shadow, a glimpse of it through a pub window or a reflection in a mirror. The tracks are more often visible on the shots as a conduction string across the capital.

The exhibition is supported by Railway Procurement Agency. It runs in the Exhibition Area of the Tallaght Civic Centre from July 25 th to 30th 2005.

For further information contact: Eimear Mangan, PR Executive, Railway Procurement Agency at 087 6848456.

Civic Theatre
The Gallery is located on the first floor of the Civic Theatre and is open from 10 am to 6 pm, Monday to Saturday.

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dowlingm

For comprehensiveness I hope pictures of redlight runners wedged against the side of a tram are included.

Victor

dowlingm wrote:

For comprehensiveness I hope pictures of redlight runners wedged against the side of a tram are included.

...and redlight hookers? :eek:

Thomond Pk

Now if I could only get the Luas from my bedsit here in Ranelagh to the exhibition catching a view of the Benburb St scene from the safety of a tram on the way back.

I am normally in favour of state support for art but haven't the Arts Council and Local Government not got more experiece of selecting what actually consists of art as opposed to a blatant PR stunt in the run-up to the ten year capital spending plan.

SeanW

in the run-up to the ten year capital spending plan.

Ehh ... you sure about that?

Victor

Thomond Pk wrote:

in the run-up to the ten year capital spending plan.

What ten-year plan? You mean the nine-and-a-half year plan?

Red Alert

Does it include sound clips of that stoned-sounding woman who badly reads the irish place names?

SeanW

Of course, you'd have to be stoned to actually want to read the Irish place names.

dazberry

We received a Luas Life magazine in the door the other day, which includes a couple of pages on the Dominique Davoust's Luas Chronicles project.

There's one picture of Blackhorse (with a couple of trams nearby) - with the "station" obviously incomplete - and a rotund man (he actually lives in the house directly behind me here) who is either very jolly or has just had Dominique jump on his foot

D.