Coney Island
Artist
Sid Grossman
(American, 1913 - 1955)
Date1947-1948
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 inches (24.77 × 20 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 inches (25.24 × 20.16 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 inches (25.24 × 20.16 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.92
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsAnnotations on sheet verso, upper left corner, in pencil: “C 1 / Major negs 20. 19 / F”;
On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: “Steidl Book print #113 / Page 135”;
On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF98210-111”.
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DescriptionImage of three young women and a young man grouped with arms around one another taken from a lower vantage point; the young man has short loosely curled hair and is wearing a plaid long-sleeved shirt; he stands between two young women each wearing dark lipstick with shirts tucked into skirts; the girl below wears a polka-dot shirt and reaches up to hold the young man’s hands.Gallery LabelThis photograph documents a group of teenagers enjoying themselves at Coney Island, a longtime seaside amusement park and boardwalk in
Brooklyn, New York. Photographer Sid Grossman was dedicated to photographing the everyday lives of working-class people, using his camera as a tool to illuminate their joys and struggles.
In 1936 Grossman co-founded the Photo League, a New York City-based organization of amateur and professional photographers. The league’s future was cut short in 1947, when the U.S. attorney general declared it a Communist front. As government pressure and anti-Communist panic intensified, membership declined, and the league disbanded in the summer of 1951.
Purchased from Howard Greenberg Gallery by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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