Perry Ogden

Blog : Lilliput Press, Dublin

A wonderful place to browse. So many books I would love to read. Picked up a copy of the collected writings of the painter Nevill Johnson. In 1952 and 1953 he made a wonderful series of black and white photographs between the canals in Dublin published as 'Dublin: the People's City'. In the late nineties I went to visit him in his flat in Peel street, Notting Hill Gate, London. Times were hard and I don't think he ever received the recognition he deserved. "Like the first intriguing image of a foreign land the magic of Dublin enlarged my heart. Tatty and peeling maybe, but what relief from pew-brown facades and the lip-pursed ardour of Belfast. Through its people, thonged as they were by dogma and tacitly in thrall to the hereafter, ran a maverick undertow. These folk laughed and winked like boys behind Godmaster's back". http://www.lilliputpress.ie