Over the past 20 years Amelia Stein has established herself as a singularly exacting photographer. Her area of expertise has been portraiture, working with actors, performers, playwrights, poets, authors and musicians on commissioned images and on production photography in the Irish theatre. She also has assembled a number of personal exhibitions which have been seen in selected galleries throughout Ireland: In Loving Memory, 1989; Triur Ban, 1995; Palm House, 2001; Loss + Memory, 2002, and many group and solo shows from EVA to the RHA.,

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A monograph of b/w photos taken in the Palm House in Dublin. With an introduction by John Banville.

Zusammenfassung
By bringing the reader around the house as it was, drawing the eye to detail upwards, along its unique metal walkway and into the smaller treasure, the orchid house; to look at the intricate glass panels, metal structure, the wooden frames with their own unique patina of the passage of time, The Palm House tells its story visually