Eve Sonneman
Coney Island

Coney Island
Coney Island
Coney Island
ArtistAmerican, born 1946
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Coney Island
Date1974
PlaceBrooklyn, New York, United States
MediumChromogenic prints and gelatin silver prints
DimensionsOverall (each of four): 4 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (11.4 × 16.5 cm)
Frame: 24 1/8 × 26 5/8 × 2 in. (61.3 × 67.6 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.302.A-.D
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Eve Sonneman is less
interested in Coney Island as a public place that attracts people for a day of
leisure than in using her camera to question perception and the way in which we
see. These four photographs are a sequence of consecutive frames taken from the
same vantage point, causing us to ask if any one frame qualifies as more
important than the other. At the same time, the images demonstrate how an
artist selects and frames reality.




Provenance[Texas Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3–February 25, 2007; Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007

"Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography," Milwaukee Art Museum, February 22-May 19, 2013.

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