Exhibitions 2007
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Images
of Ireland: Photographs by Alen MacWeeney
Feb. 27 - July 1, 2007
Dublin-born
photographer Alen MacWeeney (b. 1939) began working as a press photographer
for the Irish Times at the age of 16. In 1961 he went to New York
to work as an assistant to Richard Avedon and study with the renowned
graphic designer Alexey Brodovitch. Since then, he has worked in
many photographic genres, including portrait, travel, fashion, and
news photography, and his work has appeared in The New York
Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Travel+Leisure, Fortune and
numerous other periodicals and books. However, MacWeeney’s
depictions of his native Ireland number among his most noteworthy
images. This exhibition presents a portfolio of twelve Irish photographs
by the artist. Published in 1979, the works range in date from the
mid 1960s to the early 1970s, and depict timeless scenes of gritty
urban life in Dublin alongside harmonious country landscapes. Irish
people, their children, their homes, and their pets are all captured
by MacWeeney’s psychologically penetrative lens. In the statement
accompanying this portfolio, the artist declares: “An image
has no meaning for me unless it has some qualities beneath the surface…
There must be something more going on than one can see.”
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