Edward Quinn, Irish, 1920 - 1997
Title: Dublin, 1963
Date: 1963
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 21.4 x 26.5 cm
Credit Line: Purchased, 2019
Object Number: NGI.2019.150
DescriptionIrish photographer, Edward Quinn lived and worked as a photographer since the 1950s on the Côte d’Azur, which was “Golden Fifties” the playground of the celebrities from the world of show biz, art and business during the “Golden Fifties”. Here, he met and photographed a number of celebrated actors, musicians and visual artists, most notably Pablo Picasso. Inspired by a number of James Joyce’s short stories and novel about Dublin from the Dubliners to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Quinn returned to Ireland in the early 1960s and moved through the streets of Dublin in an effort to capture the flavour and atmosphere of the city and its people. Dublin, 1963 was one of the photographs featured in this publication. The text he placed beside it quotes Ulysses and reads, “The air without is impregnated with rain dew moisture, life essence celestial, glistering on Dublin stone there under starshiny coelom.” (Edward Quinn, James Joyce’s Dublin, 1974, p. 105)
ProvenancePurchased, Michael Hoppen Gallery, 2019