ALEN MACWEENEY
"The pictures he took...have the intensity
and poignancy of rediscovered love letters."
- The New Yorker
Dublin-born Alen MacWeeney began his international career in Paris, as Richard Avedon's assistant. He's become known for a mastery with interiors (The Home of the Surrealists and Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden), countrysides (Stone Walls and Fabled Landscapes), portraits (Bloomsbury Reflections and Irish Travellers), and even people’s inner lives (Spaces for Silence).
His work has appeared in magazines throughout the world including The New York Times Magazine, Travel + Leisure, The World of Interiors, The New Yorker, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Departures, Town and Country, Smithsonian, Esquire, and G.Q.
His photographs are in private collections and in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the George Eastman House, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. His work has been exhibited widely. Limited-edition portfolios of his work were published in 1974 and 2008. He is represented by Andrew Ward Fine Art, Los Angeles.
"Alen MacWeeney's photographs stand comparison with Edward Curtis's masterly recuperation of the American Indian, and I can think of no higher praise than that."
- John Banville, 2005 Booker Prize-winner for The Sea
"Startling in the details revealed, haunting in the affection and frankness with which [the photographs] capture these faces, these families, these lives."
- The Irish Times
"This is a great work, with the power of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus, but with a distinct MacWeeney insight."
- Owen Edwards, photography critic
