{"id":374232,"date":"2026-03-08T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/374232\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:51:12","slug":"i-got-it-through-ignorance-photographer-john-minihan-on-capturing-his-iconic-portrait-of-samuel-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/374232\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I got it through ignorance\u2019: photographer John Minihan on capturing his iconic portrait of Samuel Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">On the eve of an exhibition of his works in the National Gallery of Ireland, the photographer looks back at his most celebrated shots\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772970672_252_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Minihan &#8211; Irish photographer on climbing Nelson&#8217;s Column<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Acclaimed photographer John Minihan has always felt something of an outsider, and feels he was blackballed by the Irish arts establishment. But that never got in his way. If anything, it added to his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The word \u201ciconic\u201d is abused and over-used, but Minihan\u2019s work is exactly that. His image of Samuel Beckett captured the craggy-faced writer of Waiting for Godot in his favourite Parisian cafe, an ashtray overflowing with Gauloises cigarette butts and his hand extended towards the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the eve of an exhibition of his works in the National Gallery of Ireland, the photographer looks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,111229,19,17,5444,14380,26706],"class_list":["post-374232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-evening-standard","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liam-collins","tag-princess-diana","tag-van-morrison"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116193413366550489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}