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Divis Flats, Belfast
Date | 1986 |
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Dimensions | Image: 12 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (31.8 x 47.6 cm) Paper: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) |
Print medium | Photo-Gelatin silver |
Called "the worst housing project in Western Europe", Divis is a rubble-strewn rat-infested set of 1960's high-rises designed for the working class, a "vertical ghetto", as a resident called it, where deprivation bred alienation and children's sport involves high-speed joyrides past Army forts fired on by the high-velocity bullets, which have injured or killed many. Gilles Peress
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© Gilles Peress
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Gift of the Photographer to the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection
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Accession No. 530.1994