ARTHUR FIELD DUBLIN STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
Arthur Fields photographed passers by on O'Connell Bridge for over 50 Years.
Man on Bridge is a photo collection & online documentary project about Arthur.
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Congratulations on winning one of the Arts Awards in the Guinness Funds announced on Monday 23rd September 2013.
This is a tribute to a man who earned a living photographing the citizens of Dublin and its visitors for many years. An online documentary called ‘Man on Bridge’ aims to tell the story of Arthur Fields. Film-maker Ciaran Deeney says they want this to be an interactive project. As it is all about the visual this would be great to do online. There is no where that will fund an online new media project like this. To honour Arthurs memory send your photos taken by "Man on Bridge" to David Fields for use in further collections with free view collections, please state year taken and who is in the photo. Email; info@manonbridge.ie |
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Arthur Fields, a Ukrainian Jew, was a Dublin street photographer who took pictures of passersby on O’Connell Bridge for over 50 years. It is estimated he took 182,500 photographs from the early 1930s until he stopped in 1985 at the age of 84. Man on Bridge will be an online collection point for his work,enabling people who might have a Fields photograph buried away in their collection to contribute these to a web-based archive.
Arthur Fields, who was 92, had made a living by standing on O'Connell Street Bridge taking photographs of famous and not so famous passers-by. He died earlier this week in Dublin. Mr Fields, who was known as "the man on bridge", lived in Raheny. He had three sons and one daughter. He was son of a Ukranian refugee and was born Abraham Feldman, but changed his name. "There is hardly a Dubliner or a tourist in the past fifty years who doesn't remember photographer Arthur Fields. He was the man with the cameras who stood on O'Connell bridge every day photographing thousands of people as they went about their daily business." |
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"Call and see these cine-photographs" Did Arthur Fields give you one of these cards?
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Tara Flynn submitted a photo. "Violet Pollock and Edward Flynn, taken on O'Connell Bridge. My father, Edward Flynn was a well-regarded goalie who played with Drumcondra and the Bohemians, as well as other teams, during his career.
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If you spend every day on O'Connell Bridge for over 50 years you are bound to see a few famous faces. Here is Arthur with the actress Margaret Rutherford best know for playing Miss Marple in the 1960s.
Man on the Bridge the Book – The Photos of Arthur Fields
Man on the Bridge – The Photos of Arthur Fields was launched at the Gallery of Photography by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke on Wednesday 22 October 2014. The book is the result of the "Man on Bridge" project which crowd-sourced photos taken by Arthur Fields, a street photographer who stood on O'Connell Bridge every day for fifty years.
Big announcement Man on Bridge fans!
We're really delighted to reveal that there will be a second Man on the Bridge book in partnership with Collins Press!!!!!
The Man on Bridge website received over 6000 images. The first book was created using a selection of the first 1,500 images. This new book will be created using a selection of the remaining 4,500 images.
It is going to be bigger, richer and more revealing. It will be out this September so watch this space
If you want to pick up the last few copies of the first Man on Bridge book, you can do so here: www.manonbridge.ie/shop
The Man on Bridge website received over 6000 images. The first book was created using a selection of the first 1,500 images. This new book will be created using a selection of the remaining 4,500 images.
It is going to be bigger, richer and more revealing. It will be out this September so watch this space
If you want to pick up the last few copies of the first Man on Bridge book, you can do so here: www.manonbridge.ie/shop
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