Exhibition
Portrait of an Irish collector

As part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival, the CCI in collaboration with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) are delighted to present a selection of photographs from the renowned collection of Dr David Kronn.

A medical geneticist and longtime supporter of photography Dr David Kronn, originally from Dublin, began his collection in New York in the early 1990s. What began as a reflection of classic 20th century developments soon began to encompass practitioners and subjects that have more recently burgeoned to worldclass recognition such as Evelyn Hofer, Graciela Iturbide, Daido Moriyama, Malick Sidibe, Zanele Muholi, Pieter Hugo, Doug Dubois, Tomoko Sawada, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg. Alongside are exciting developments in Irish contemporary photographic practice by artists including Alice Maher, Anna Rackard, Amelia Stein, Paul Seawright, Donovan Wylie, David Farrell, Conor Horgan to name but a few. Dr Kronn’s ambition is to establish a worldclass photographic collection as part of the National Collections of Ireland at IMMA. He continues to develop his pledged collection which currently stands at 1200 works approximately.

A private collection is a portrait over time of a collector’s thinking and instinct. Portrait of an Irish Collector, reveals a network of recurring concerns that transcend geography and chronology and is structured through a series of resonances and conversations between images. It draws on the notion of the portrait in its widest sense to explore echoes between cultures in terms of tradition, ritual, myth and topographies as well as aspects of contemporary social fabric and diversity. Transformed by the camera these images leave their mark both timeless and life-affirming.

Curator : Christina Kennedy

With the support of Culture Ireland