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Bright lights, big city…
e may have been born in Somerset, but after setting up his photography 
studio in Dublin back in 1956, John Wilfed Hinde became synonymous with Ireland.
e may have been born in Somerset, but after setting up his photography 
studio in Dublin back in 1956, John Wilfed Hinde became synonymous with Ireland.And that was all down to his iconic postcards over the following 16 years, Hinde’s trademark being to turn all the colours up to 11.
And sometimes, if the sun was bright, maybe even 12.
The man led a colourful life too, having been part of the circus in the late 1940s and ’50s (where he met his future wife) and, after selling John Hinde Ltd in 1972, spending the rest of his life pursuing his love of painting. In 1993, The Irish Museum Of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work. Four years later, Hinde died in Dordogne, France, knowing that millions of his postcards had been sent around the world.
You can find out how Hinde’s images of Greystones, Bray and beyond impacted tourism in Wicklow, the techniques used, and just how dull our postcards looked like before the arrival of these colour-saturated and highly idealistic visions started popping through people’s letterboxes.
You can find out how Hinde’s images of Greystones, Bray and beyond impacted tourism in Wicklow, the techniques used, and just how dull our postcards looked like before the arrival of these colour-saturated and highly idealistic visions started popping through people’s letterboxes.
On Wednesday, January 18th at 8pm, local historian James Scannell will be giving a Greystones Archaelogical & Historical Society talk on Hinde at the Kilian House Family Centre.
Admission is just €3, and you can find out more about the GAHS gang and their monthly talks here.
The John Hinde portrait by Mary Evans above is available here.
A John HInde kinda Sunday
Busy Day at the Harbour. Pic: John Hinde
Gonna take you higher…
Fishermen’s Blues. John Hinde postcard
Vintage John Hinde Glendalough Postcard
Bray Multiview Postcard John Hinde
Glenview Hotel: The Early Years. Source: John Hinde Studios
Bray promenade goes Full John Hinde
John Hinde 1966
Greystones Postcard John HInde 1960s