Beckett: Lieben - Book Launch - Love, Life and Death: John Minihan

Beckett: Lieben 2026 explores Beckett's fascination with German expressionism, which he first encountered through his relationship with the Sinclair family in Kassel in the 1930s. For more information about the festival, please go to www.liverpool.ac.uk/beckett.

We are delighted to welcome back Irish photographer John Minihan, to mark the launch of "Love, Life and Death: John Minihan in His Own Words", his new book edited by Gerry Diver and Declan Houten at the Institute of Irish Studies. The launch will be in the form of a conversation between John Minihan and the editors, with a particular focus on his photos of Samuel Beckett.

Love, Life and Death: John Minihan in His Own Words

From his beginnings in the town of Athy, County Kildare, John Minihan rose to become one of the most perceptive photographers of the twentieth century, rubbing shoulders with film stars, rock stars and royalty along the way. Drawing on extensive interviews and the photographs that made Minihan's reputation, this book tells the story of an Irish artist, his methodology and his creative obsessions in his own words. Beginning with his initiation into the alchemy of photography in Ireland and London, Love, Life and Death looks at Minihan as a photojournalist, an expert in the mysteries of the darkroom and as a deeply spiritual artist. Through everything, Minihan's words unspool a thread that links his photographs of the wake of Katy Tyrell and of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett — his unwavering belief in the centrality of love, life and death as photographic subjects.

Love, Life and Death: John Minihan in His Own Words will be published by Peter Lang: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1728643.

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