MacWeeney, Alen (1939)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1939
Biographical note
Photographer. Alen MacWeeney was born in 1939 in Dublin, Ireland. He began his career in photography as a teenager, working as a press photographer for the Irish Times for a year. At age 21, he worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon in New York and Paris. For the rest of his career he pursued independent photography, first based in his home city of Dublin and later New York City.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
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Alen MacWeeney Northern Ireland photographs
Collection
Abstract
Photographs created by twentieth-century Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney documenting Northern Ireland in 1971. The nearly 500 photographs document the impacts of the violence ensuing from the struggle for power between state military and paramilitary groups, known as the Troubles, on daily life in Northern Ireland.
Restrictions on access
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971 - 2018