Gilles Peress
French, born 1946
The Irish Republican Army the Day after Bloody Andersonstown, Belfast
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Gilles Peress
French, born 19461972
The Irish Republican Army the Day after Bloody Andersonstown, Belfast
Gilles Peress French, born 1946 →gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographic process
Date
1972
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
76.3 × 101.4 cm (30 1/16 × 39 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Gilles Peress
Here Gilles Peress captured a striking image of guerilla warfare the day following Bloody Sunday, the 1972 massacre of 13 unarmed civilians by British soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland. An Irish Republican Army soldier, gun drawn, leaps over a wire fence, his face turned from the camera and further obscured by a balaclava. Anonymity here has a practical purpose: British authorities could more easily arrest the subject if the photograph showed his face. Peress took thousands of images over three decades as he documented the war for independence from British rule in Northern Ireland.
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