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Man on the Bridge: The Photographs of Arthur Fields

"For nearly fifty years, street photographer Arthur Fields captured the daily lives of Dubliners and international visitors on O'Connell Bridge, amassing an archive of over 180,000 images that documented the changing face of Irish society from the 1930s to the 1980s. Introduction to Arthur Fields and His Dublin Legacy The phrase "Man on the Bridge" instantly evokes the remarkable cultural preservation project dedicated to Arthur Fields, a Ukrainian-born Jewish street photographer whose birth name was Abram Garfinkel. Operating primarily from the iconic O'Connell Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, Fields spent decades standing in all weather conditions..."

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