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Coney Island People

Author : Harvey Stein

Publisher : Schiffer Publishing

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 15,75 MB

Release : 2022-05-28

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ISBN : 9780764364068

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ConeyIsland is an American icon celebrated worldwide, a fantasy land of thepast with an evolving present and an irrepressible optimism about itsfuture. It is a democratic entertainment where people of all walks oflife and places are brought together. There isn't anywhere else like it, and that is much of its appeal. Here 170 evocative black-and-white images taken by eminent photographer Harvey Stein from 1970 through 2020 simultaneously look back in time while giving a current view to the people and activities of this "poor man's Riviera." The images capture the wonder and intimacy of Coney Island. There is no photo book that has been published that documents a 50-year time period of a famous location taken by one photographer. Being in Coney Island is like stepping into another society, rather than just experiencing a day's entertainment.



Coney Island

Author : Harvey Stein

Publisher : W. W. Norton

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 19,47 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9780393046588

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Photographs bring to life the small strip of land on New York's Atlantic Coast, Coney Island, that for more than one hundred years has provided thrills, amusements, and escape to millions of people



Coney Island

Author : Charles Denson

Publisher :

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 40,30 MB

Release : 2002

Category : History

ISBN : 9781580084550

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Denson gives us an insider's look at one of New York's best-known neighborhoods, weaving together memories of his childhood adventures with colorful stories of the area's past and interviews with local personalities, all brought to life by hundreds of photographs, detailed maps, and authentic memorabilia.



The Lost Tribe of Coney Island

Author : Claire Prentice

Publisher : New Harvest

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 19,65 MB

Release : 2014-10-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780544262287

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Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.



Amusing the Million

Author : John F. Kasson

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 39,27 MB

Release : 2011-04-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1429952237

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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.



A Coney Island Reader

Author : Louis J. Parascandola

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 24,7 MB

Release : 2014-12-09

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0231538197

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This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."



Briefly Seen

Author : Harvey Stein

Publisher : Schiffer Publishing

Page : 183 pages

File Size : 36,40 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9780764349799

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"Harvey Stein documents the iconic areas of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan in 172 beautiful black-and-white photographs taken over 41 years, from 1974 through 2014"--Front jacket flap.



A Coney Island of the Mind

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Publisher : New Directions Publishing

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 26,97 MB

Release : 1958

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780811200417

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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.



Coney Island and Astroland

Author : Charles Denson

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 10,47 MB

Release : 2011

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738574288

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Coney Island is a unique New York City neighborhood and a place of exciting innovation, where the roller coaster and the hot dog were introduced to the world, the glow of a million bare lightbulbs at Luna Park dazzled early visitors, and rocket rides at Astroland fueled intergalactic fantasies. Coney Island served as the pressure valve for New York, drawing millions to its famous beach on sweltering weekends. Astroland Park, created at the dawn of the space age, was the vision of Dewey and Jerome Albert. They transformed the 3-acre Feltman's Restaurant property, one of Coney Island's oldest attractions, into a futuristic amusement park that would anchor the amusement zone for the next half century. The park's ambitious opening in 1962 mirrored the wide-eyed optimism of the early 1960s and helped Coney Island survive the closure of the venerable Steeplechase Park.



Peter Kayafas: Coney Island Waterdance

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Page : 48 pages

File Size : 43,69 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9780979776847

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An elegant collection of portraits of swimmers at Coney Island across two decades This collection of 30 photographs by American photographer Peter Kayafas (born 1971) depicts people swimming in the ocean at Coney Island, a location that has long served as a source of inspiration and fascination for artists. Made over the course of many summers and one particular winter during which Kayafas was a member of Coney Island's legendary Polar Bear Club (the oldest winter bathing club in the United States) in the 1990s and 2000s, the photographs are filled with energy, movement, grace and a surprising intimacy. Using a waterproof camera, hidden just below the ocean's surface, Kayafas captures candid snapshots of unsuspecting beachgoers. His focus on the swimmers over a period of two decades provides an extended insight into the elemental relationship humans have with water.