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Arthur Fields in O’Connell Street, Dublin in the 1980s

Snapper Arthur Fields.

A life of selfie sacrifice.

Niall De Buitlear writes:

I thought you might like a great documentary that was on RTE over the Christmas holidays. I was involved in the project in the early stages when it was just an online photo collection project (ManOnBridge). It has since turned into a fantastic documentary which I can say because I wasn’t involved in the production.

It tells the the story of Arthur Fields who worked as a street photographer in Dublin every day for 50 years. The documentary shows that the “man on the bridge” was a complex and unusual man. And it’s on the RTE player for 10 more days…

Watch Man On The Bridge here

(Guardian)

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Street strolling in Dublin in the 1930s.

‘Man On Bridge’ writes:

“1930s Dublin in Motion” as part of the Man on Bridge photo-collection project [gathering the photos of Arthur Fields, a street photographer who captured passersby on Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge from the 1930s to the 1980s.] The images were taken on film stock which resulted in a burst of three images and provide the movement.”

ManOnBridge.ie