New York Subways
by Alex Q. Arbuckle
In , photographer Alen MacWeeney captured a melancholy, painterly series of images of people on New York’s subways. Born in Dublin, MacWeeney began his photographic career in Paris as an assistant to Richard Avedon. After moving to New York, he became captivated by the challenge of making images of people sitting and standing in the bright confines of subway cars. He drew particular inspiration from the works of Reginald Marsh, a social realist painter who was known for his depictions of crowded life in the city. But it was not until he began sorting through work prints that the project took on its unique voice. As the prints lay strewn about, partially on top of one another, MacWeeney found that the combined images told more than a single picture alone. Diptychs became the key to his subway photos. He created pairings that at first glance may appear to be a single image. The subtle groupings generate feelings of surprise, humor, imbalance and menace.
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On November 21 at the Rizzoli Bookstore on Broadway, At Wit&#;s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker received its official launch. The book includes Alen MacWeeney&#;s striking photographs of more than fifty New Yorker cartoonists past and present with accompanying profiles by Michael Maslin and a select sampling of cartoons. This is the first book celebrating the centennial of cartoonists at The New Yorker. One hopes there will be more.
Stephen Nadler shows off his signed copy of At Wit&#;s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker that doubles as a preview.
As of this writing, Rizzoli [Bookstore] still has books signed by the authors available on its website here.
Cartoonist Michael Maslin posted an extensive account of the book launch event on his Ink Spill blog here.
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Now all photographs in the series have been published with these online community comments in a book by Alen MacWeeney entitled, My Dublin , My Dubliners
The book is about the power of photography in creating a conversation that unites the community, and that transports the viewer back to another life. It is local history. It is about life in a Dublin of the past being brought back into the present in by today’s Dubliners, “straight from the horse’s mouth”.
For MacWeeney, “Reading the reaction of Dubliners in lockdown to seeing the people or places they knew as children, – mothers and fathers, relations and friends, coming or going to work, playing in the streets, or on a date, waiting for the bus, or just being there as I was at the time, was electrifying; a pure joy to read their responses.”
My Dublin , My Dubliners published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin will be launched on 9th December at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin. It will be available on pre-order and from all bookstores. (Price €40)
Alen MacWeeneys website:
UCC Contact: Crónán Ó Doibhlin, Head of Research Collecti
All exhibitions, no matter the scale, are enormous undertakings of collaborative work, bringing together the wide-ranging talents of dozens of people. I am grateful to everyone within and without the NYPL community who had a hand in helping to care for Alen MacWeeney’s photography as this exhibition came about. The invaluable support and guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Cronin, Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography, made this show possible in the first place. I am likewise grateful for the enthusiastic collaboration and counsel of Declan Kiely, Director of Special Collections and Exhibitions, throughout the entire process. My colleagues from across the Wallach Division, especially Associate Director Deirdre Donohue and Photography Collection Specialists David Lowe and Zulay Chang, provided daily encouragement. Ian Fowler, Curator of The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division was a delightful and supportive co-conspirator in the inclusion of the Vignelli maps. Exhibition designers Henk van Asen and Melissa Leone from HvADesign crafted a beautiful, balanced design, bringing historical flavor and color to the gall
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