Remember the photographer who stood on O'Connell bridge for 50 years?

Arthur Fields spent 50 years standing on Dublin's O'Connell bridge, snapping photos of passers-by. Now, his history of Dublin is being collected for a documentary.

Remember the photographer who stood on O'Connell bridge for 50 years?

A young Fields with his camera pre-1966, left (with Nelson's Pillar visible) and circa 1988. Pic: Man on Bridge Documentary.

Arthur Fields was a Jewish Ukrainian in Dublin who became as much a part of the city as the bridge he stood on for 50 years - taking an estimated 182,500 photographs of Dubliners.

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