In 1964 Erich Hartmann went to Dublin for the first time. He had already explored the city extensively in his imagination ever since he first read James Joyce's "Ulysses," but now he went in reality, with his cameras. The result is his impressions of Dublin recorded in over 3,000 images.

It has been said that, if all maps of Dublin were destroyed, one could be redrawn from a close reading of Joyce's "Ulysses." Although he did not return to Dublin after his 1912 departure, so determined was Joyce to have his every description exactly correct that he wrote to friends in Dublin, from Trieste where...