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People of the Road: The Irish Travellers (Irish Studies) (Hardcover)
by Mathias T. Oppersdorff (Photographer)
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  • Hardcover: 63 pages
  • Publisher: Syracuse University Press; 1st ed edition (November 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0815604769
  • ISBN-13: 978-0815604761
  • Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars 1 customer review (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sparks interest, but too scanty in coverage, April 29, 2005
By John L Murphy "Fionnchú" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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It's difficult to review a photographic collection, but the introductory essay, all too briefly, sets up the three decades over which Oppersdorf, an American photojournalist, tracked on camera various Irish traveller families. He was lucky to be able to record their last days on the road, as since the 1970s-mid 90s here documented, many travellers have settled into more permanent dwellings. These photos show many careworn faces, women at early ages looking much older under the burden of many children, men equally weary of a hard existence in the often unforgiving Irish climate, and children gazing at the lens with mingled suspicion and interest.

In his sensitive introduction, that could and should have been far more in-depth, given what Oppersdorff's capable of telling us, the photographer indicates how wary his subjects were of his presence. I believe this would've merited much more detail, and the sparse presentation of this book--63 plates and maybe 3000 words of text at best, only begins to whet one's curiousity.
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