Irish Consulate Hosts 'Dublin: Then And Now' Photographic Exhibit

In the summer of 1963 the American award-winning photojournalist Marvin Koner traveled to Dublin as part of a worldwide photo-shoot sponsored by Kodak.

Koner's photographs of Dublin's inner city and docklands reflect his abiding interest in social conditions and recall Dublin at a time when the inner city and docklands area suffered from high unemployment, poverty and general deprivation.

Several of these poignant images were featured in the Photography Annual 1963, a publication by the editors of Popular Photography that showcased a "selection of the world's finest photographs."

In August 1990 Koner's widow, Mrs. Silvia Koner donated these photographs to the national Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, New York.

These extraordinary photographs would become the basis for their acclaimed "Dublin: Then and Now" exhibit that was presented in 2006 at The National Library in Dublin.

Each image has a descriptive caption based on the captions in the Photography Annual with additional information provided by Mr. Niall Dardis, Archivist, Dublin Port Co., and by the late Mr. Éamonn Mac Thomáis.

In the summer of 2003 the Dublin photographer Declan Corrigan was commissioned by the Museum to take photographs of the inner city and docklands as an epilogue to those taken forty years earlier by Marvin Koner.

Corrigan's photographs attest to the massive transformation that has taken place in the intervening forty years.

The exhibition will run in the Consulate General of Ireland, 345 Park Ave, 17th Floor, from Wednesday February 3.

To arrange to view the exhibition you can email the Consulate at newyorkcongen@dfa.ie or call (212) 319-2554/2563.

It is certainly an exhibition that is not to be missed!