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Stop that.

Dublin, Summer 1974.

Rarely seen images of Dublin life from noted American street photographer William Gedney.

Gedney spent a week in Ireland in July 1974 on a stopover to London calling on from top: The Forty Foot, Sandycove, County Dublin; Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2; Sandymount Strand, Dublin 4; Leonard’s Corner, South Circular Road, Dublin 8; Caledon Road, East Wall, Dublin 3; near the Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin 2.

William Gedney photographs and papers (Duke University)

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Photographer William Gedney died of Aids in New York in 1989.

After his death, the quality of his work was recognised as a bit special and his photographs are now exhibited at places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

In August 1974, he visited Dublin and took these stark, often erotically-charged, images, among others now housed in the Duke University digital archive.

William Gedney

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