ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
TRISH MORRISSEY
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Somerset
Date: June 2012
Trish Morrissey (Portrait by Pete Boyd)
Chapter 4:
(Chapter 4 of 13, Running Time: 00:10:02)
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Chapter 4 Synopsis:
- Time at newspaper made her realise she was a feminist.
- Found Dublin very parochial and misogynistic and was keen to leave.
- Describes photography evening class, both male and female students, quite intensive.
- Fellow students have gone on to be successful.
- Did self portraits as part of course, also did projects such as 'street furniture'.
- It was a City and Guilds course, photography was functional rather than expressive.
- There was no history of photography taught, it was all scientific.
- Magazines, The Face and iD, were very exciting at the time.
- Later became sick of commercial photography and studied photography as an MA.
- When in Ireland aspiration was to publish photographs in a book.
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