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John Minihan (b.1946) SAMUEL BECKETT, LE PETIT CA

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John Minihan (b.1946) SAMUEL BECKETT, LE PETIT CA
<B>John Minihan (b.1946)</B><BR>SAMUEL BECKETT, LE PETIT CAFÉ, BOULEVARD ST JACQUE<BR>signed, inscribed and dated [December 1985] in lower margin<BR>silver gelatine print (no. 2 from an edition of 6)<BR>51 by 41cm., 20 by 16in.<BR>Literature:<BR>John Minihan, Photographs of Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, October Gallery, London, 1990, illustrated page 20; André Bernold, L'amitié de Beckett 1979-1989, Hermann Éditeurs des Sciences et des Arts, Paris, 1992, illustrated page 10; John Minihan, Samuel Beckett, with an introduction by Aidan Higgins, Secker and Warburg, London, 1996, pages 23-24 and 92, also illustrated on front cover; Aidan Higgins and John Minihan, Samuel Beckett, Anatolia Editions, Paris, 1996, illustrated page 50 John Minihan was born in Dublin in 1946. He has worked as a photojournalist for the London Evening Standard and has published numerous books of photographs. He is best known for his studies of Irish literary figures, some of which were included in a solo exhibition, 'Mirror With a Memory', held in 2000 at the National Photographic Archive, Dublin.