About the exhibition
On the occasion of Ireland’s EU Presidency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and IMMA are delighted to present an exhibition of over 60 photographs from the renowned collection of Dr David Kronn.
Photography has held a lifelong fascination for Irish-born US-based collector Dr David Kronn. Born and brought up in Dublin, Dr Kronn had an early interest in photography, learning to use a darkroom at his school camera club. He remained an active photographer while he was studying medicine at Trinity College Dublin and when his medical training took him to New York, this interest in photography developed into a passion for collecting.
Dr Kronn has shaped a collection, of over 1000 photographs, rich in content, genre and themes that encourages many readings. The Collection includes esteemed photographers such as Evelyn Hofer, Graciela Iturbide, Daido Moriyama, Malick Sidibe and Pieter Hugo. Alongside contemporary photographic practice by Irish artists including Alice Maher, Anna Rackard, Amelia Stein and David Farrell among many others. Dr Kronn’s ambition is to establish a worldclass photography collection as part of the National Collections of Ireland. He continues to develop his pledged collection for IMMA which currently stands at 1200 works approximately.
A private collection is a portrait over time of a collector’s thinking and instinct. This curation for Centre Culturel Irelandais, will draw on the notion of the portrait in its widest sense to explore echoes between cultures in terms of tradition, ritual and myth as well as aspects of contemporary social fabric and diversity. Transformed by the camera these distinctive images leave their mark both timeless and life-affirming.
