SMALL PRINT:PHOTOGRAPHY OF street style is seen as a modern phenomenon, brought to the masses through blogs such as Facehunter, The Sartorialist and, closer to home, Dublin Streets. But a new book and prospective documentary show documentation of Dublin street style has been going on for more than half a century.
Currently seeking funds through the Irish crowd-funding website Fundit.ie, Where Were You!is a collaboration between Still Films ( Pyjama Girls, Seaview) and Garry O'Neill who has been collecting images of Dublin street style for four years. Harvesting people's personal collections, O'Neill is close to publishing a book on the subject, while Still Films wants to make a short documentary which would hopefully lead to a feature-length film. O'Neill has photographs of punks, Teddy boys, mods, rockers, ravers, goths and more, creating an archive that has never been brought together before.
The images are captivating; hugging punks, serious staring teddy boys, cheery mods on Vespas, and strutting 1960s ladies, all offering a glimpse at how international fashions were adopted by Dublin’s young, and how they changed from year to year, decade to decade. Today, it’s pretty easy to collect changing street fashions and archive them online but this history has rarely been catalogued before.With a week-and-a-half to go, Still Films and O’Neill hope to raise €6,500.
* fundit.ie/project/where-were-you
