Edward Quinn
, Irish, 1920-1997
Title
Dublin, 1963Date1963
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 21.4 x 26.5 cm
Credit LinePurchased, 2019
Object numberNGI.2019.150
DescriptionIrish photographer, Edward Quinn lived and worked as a photographer since the 1950s on the Côte d’Azur, which was during the “Golden Fifties” the playground of celebrities from the world of show business, art and business. 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. This resulted in the publication, 'James Joyce’s Dublin', published in 1974. '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