MacWeeney, Alen (1939)
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.
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Alen MacWeeney Ireland photographs
Photographs created by twentieth-century New-York-based Irish photographer Alen MacWeeney documenting Northern Ireland in the early 1970s and Irish artist Anne Yeats in the early 1960s. The nearly 500 photographs of Northern Ireland 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.
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