Background information
Harry GRUYAERT made the color photos in the narrow photo book 'Irish Summers' from 1983-84 while traveling to Ireland. The portraits of stolen moments of happiness and collective recreation of the Irish working class of the 1980s on one of those rare sunny summer days illustrate the Magnum photographer's interest in complex, chaotic borderline images and his ability to capture the 'decisive moment'.
Content
While some of these photographs are in a number of Harry GRUYAERT's previous photo books (e.g. 'Rivages' / 'Edges'), this is the first time they have been presented as a series.