Gilles Peress

First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland
1981

Black and white photograph of children playing on a snowy street, with one child lying on the ground and another on a sled, amidst a backdrop of residential buildings and a wrought iron fence.
Black and white photograph of children playing on a snowy street, with one child lying on the ground and another on a sled, amidst a backdrop of residential buildings and a wrought iron fence.

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Date
1981

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Image: 12 3/4 × 18 15/16in. (32.4 × 48.1 cm)

Accession number
98.47.5

Series
Northern Ireland Series/ Flashpoints: Selected Images of Gilles Peress Portfolio

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ronald B. and Susan N. Milch

Rights and reproductions
© Gilles Peress, “Magnum Photos, New York”

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