Harry Thuillier Jr. Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1964 - d. 1997

Born on 18 January 1964
Harry Thuillier Jnr was one of only a handful of photographers throughout the world who worked with the platinum/palladium process, the summit of alternative printing.
He studied photography in Memphis College of Art and completed his BA in Fine Art Photography in Boston before studying under Jerry Uellsmann in Florida.
He returned home to Dublin, Ireland in 1989 where the pressures of trying to voice his artistic expression contributed to a nervous breakdown. His subject matter was noted for its particular darkness such as ancient skulls, limbs decorated with opium pods and flowering nudes. However it wasn't long before his exhibitions would receive very favorable reviews both here and abroad, and his work would be used in magazines, books and album covers.
While photographing a crowd of street punks in Dublin one December night, Thuillier was attacked, and lost 80% vision in his photographic eye. Already tired of the commercial world and commercial work in general, the need to express his vision became even more important. The eye injury forced him to investigate other means of expression through photography and it was during his recuperation that he began working with large format cameras.
This led him to study the expensive and almost ancient process of Platinum/Palladium development, a process much forgotten by modern day photographers. This technique would prove only to enhance his photographs and would soon set him apart even more from other photographers to become one of Ireland’s leading components of fine art photography until his mysterious death in Milan in December 1997.