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Coney Island

Photograph
1940 (photographed), c.1980 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Weegee (Photographer)
Kaplan (Printer)

Black and white photograph featuring a large crowd of people on a beach, taken from a high vantage point.

Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleConey Island (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin silver print
Photographic Paper
Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description
Photograph by Weegee, 'Coney Island', gelatin silver print 1940, printed by Sid Kaplan c.1980
Physical description
Black and white photograph featuring a large crowd of people on a beach, taken from a high vantage point.
Dimensions
  • Sheet length: 32.7cm
  • Sheet width: 26cm
Style
Art Photography
Gallery label
Gallery 100, 2016-17:

Weegee (1899–1968)
‘Coney Island’
1940

Weegee began his career as a photojournalist in the 1930s, taking gritty images of New York life. On a hot summer’s day, he photographed on Coney Island beach. Bodies of all shapes and sizes converge to create an immense display of interweaving limbs.

Gelatin silver print (printed about 1980)
Museum no. Ph.427-1982
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.427-1982

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1051177/coney-island-photograph-weegee/
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