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around 1815, she raised her children, William (born 26 May 1867), Mary (born 4 March 1870), and
Chrissie on the estate. Developing an interest in photography, in the mid-1880s, Shackleton began as an amateur photographer, taking portraits of her family members. From the beginning, she developed her
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Shackleton's photographs of people captured the drudgery of working-class people, showing their poverty and lack of adequate footwear, as well as the dilapidated housing where they lived. While other pictures, like a 1903 photograph of a workshop, captured the O'Conor
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and took many shots featuring working-class people and culture on the islands. The majority of photographers of her day took images of romantic settings, hoping to capture the beauty of their surroundings, but
Shackleton utilized a more documentary approach, similar to modern
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130:(30 January 1843 – 5 April 1909) was a pioneering Irish photographer. Of the upper-class, she took atypical photographs for her era, focusing on a photojournalistic approach to her subjects, showing the development of Ireland during its period of industrialization.
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was the daughter of John Wigham and became the sole support of her five children when Joshua died in 1848. Keeping the business, Mary taught her children to be independent. On 6 March 1866, Edmundson married Joseph Fisher
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Many of her images reflected her interest in industrialization including photographs of industrial architecture and waterways. She also had an intense interest in the
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in 1892 and made numerous excursions with the society, documenting
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purchased the Anna Liffey House and
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