Coney Island, New York City

Artist Garry Winogrand (American, 1928 - 1984)

Date1952; printed 1974

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 1/2 × 12 15/16 inches (21.59 × 32.86 cm)
Mount: 14 3/4 × 19 3/4 inches (37.47 × 50.17 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.61.47

SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: “Garry Winogrand”

InscribedEditioned on mount recto, lower left, in pencil: “49/75”

MarkingsOn mount recto, lower right, in pencil: “4”

Edition/State/Proofed. 49/75

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DescriptionImage of people sitting on sandy beach beneath overpass/bridge. A shirtless young man stands beneath the bridge so that his head seems to disappear between the metal beams. Two men and a woman are seated in the foreground while others are gathered in the background and partially hidden in shadows.Gallery Label

Gallery Label

The man standing beneath the Coney Island boardwalk likely imagined his head would be included in this picture. Instead, photographer Garry Winogrand playfully performed a pictorial decapitation, purposefully challenging conventional approaches to photography. Attracted to the imperfect and spontaneous nature of snapshot photography, artists like Winogrand created off-kilter, out of focus, and gleefully haphazard images of everyday life.

Provenance

Purchased from Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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