{"title":"Alen MacWeeney Books — Photo Museum Ireland","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlen MacWeeney began his photographic career in Paris as an assistant to Richard Avedon before moving to New York, where he spent decades making photographs of extraordinary sensitivity and formal intelligence. Both titles available at PMI are signed copies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York Subways 1977 is a melancholy, painterly series presented as diptychs that at first glance appear to be single images - pairings that generate feelings of surprise, humour, imbalance and menace in equal measure. My Dublin 1963, My Dubliners 2020 weaves together street photographs made in Dublin in 1963 with responses posted online during the 2020 lockdown, where they triggered a virtual explosion of recognition, dispute, nostalgia and Dublin humour. Local history brought back to life by the community it belongs to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned copies are limited. Every purchase supports the photographer directly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto Museum Ireland is Ireland's national centre for contemporary photography, supporting Irish photographers since 1978.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"423\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"my-dublin-1963-my-dubliners-2020-special-edition-by-alen-macweeney","title":"My Dublin 1963, My Dubliners 2020, Alen MacWeeney (Special Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eIn September 1962 Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney returned to Dublin from a year in New York, working for the acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon. Equipped with a 35mm Leica camera, he went onto the streets of the city to engage with life directly as he saw it. Almost 60 years later, during the pandemic lockdowns and isolation of 2020, that we all experienced, MacWeeney’s photographs of Dublin 1963 were shared by his partner, Pesya, with a group of online Dubliners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe result was a virtual explosion. An instantaneous torrent of observations, comments and opinions filled the screen. As more photographs were posted, the online community scrutinised every incidental detail. Responses bristled with Dublin humour. The people and locations that MacWeeney had captured were recognised and disputed. Discussions and recollections drew in multiple participants, the online exchanges eliciting wonder, incredulity, nostalgia, warmth – and sometimes anger. This previously unseen series of photographs had come to life again in the unexpected confinement of a pandemic to grace a multitude of new lives through a bond of shared interest and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow all photographs in the series have been published with a selection of these online comments by the community in a book by Alen MacWeeney entitled, My Dublin 1963, My Dubliners 2020. The book is about the power of photography in creating a conversation that unites the community, and transports the viewer back to another life. It is local history. It is about life in a Dublin of the past being brought back into the present in 2020 by today’s Dubliners, “straight from the horse’s mouth”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor MacWeeney, “Reading the reaction of Dubliners in lockdown to seeing the people or places they knew as children, – mothers and fathers, relations and friends, coming or going to work, playing in the streets, or on a date, waiting for the bus, or just being there as I was at the time, was electrifying; a pure joy to read their responses.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Alen MacWeeney Archive is held by University College Cork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ucc.ie\/alen_macweeney\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Lilliput Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42396534079651,"sku":"TH-HA-1013","price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/files\/dublinphotographcover.png?v=1749222247"},{"product_id":"signed-new-york-subways-1977-by-alen-macweeney-pre-order","title":"SIGNED: New York Subways 1977 by Alen MacWeeney","description":"\u003cp\u003eSIGNED copies of New York Subways 1977 by Alen MacWeeney - Pre Order\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePre Order your copy now, very limited edition coming to Ireland in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreview copy available to visit at Photo Museum Ireland, booking essential, email darragh@photomuseumireland.ie to make an appointment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1977, photographer Alen MacWeeney captured a melancholy, painterly series of images of people on New York’s subways. Born in Dublin, MacWeeney began his photographic career in Paris as an assistant to Richard Avedon. After moving to New York, he became captivated by the challenge of making images of people sitting and standing in the bright confines of subway cars. He drew particular inspiration from the works of Reginald Marsh, a social realist painter who was known for his depictions of crowded life in the city. But it was not until he began sorting through work prints that the project took on its unique voice. As the prints lay strewn about, partially on top of one another, MacWeeney found that the combined images told more than a single picture alone. Diptychs became the key to his subway photos. He created pairings that at first glance may appear to be a single image. The subtle groupings generate feelings of surprise, humor, imbalance and menace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited edition of 300 printed by GHP Media in West Haven, CT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExclusive to the NYPL ( Coming soon to Photo Museum Ireland )\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollaborators:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlex Q. Arbuckle (Editor) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eType:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover \u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 22 \u003cstrong\u003eDims:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e18\" x 7\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"heading\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Alen MacWeeney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter working with Richard Avedon, Alen MacWeeney left the world of studio photography and returned home to Dublin in the mid 1960s, acquiring a new 35mm Leica camera. Subjects from this period include itinerant Irish tinker and traveler communities, poetic landscapes inspired by Yeats, and photographs of Amish communities in Pennsylvania. Moving back to New York again in the 1970s, he continued with his now-established signature style of gritty-yet-tender street photography, and produced the subway photographs included in this exhibition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlen MacWeeney is still active, living in New York City and Sag Harbor, and traveling to Ireland often. His work is in the collections of museums, institutional archives, and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Boston College, and The New York Public Library. His entire collection was recently acquired by University College Cork in Ireland, where it will be archived and maintained. In addition to his 2022 artist’s book \u003cem\u003eNew York Subways 1977\u003c\/em\u003e, MacWeeney has also recently published a limited-edition portfolio of photographs taken in 1975 of his friend and fellow photographer Francesca Woodman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New York Public Library's Photography Collection acquired 42 of MacWeeney's \u003cem\u003eNew York Subways\u003c\/em\u003e series photographs in 2013, and his unique artist's book, \u003cem\u003eNew York Subways 1977\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New York Public Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49027559194971,"sku":"NE-BO-2246","price":190.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/files\/Alen_McWeeney_subway.jpg?v=1726500869"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/collections\/Alen_McWeeney_subway.jpg?v=1779452747","url":"https:\/\/shop.photomuseumireland.ie\/collections\/alen-macweeney.oembed","provider":"Photo Museum Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}