Artist
Eve Sonneman American, 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)
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
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
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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Various Artists
1880–1970
Albumen silver prints, tintypes, cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, chromogenic prints, internal dye diffusion transfer prints, lentincular prints
2020.137.5.1-.501
Various Artists
1880–1970
Albumen silver prints, gelatin silver prints, collages, embroidered postcards, chromogenic prints, internal dye diffusion transfer prints
2020.137.6.1-.196
Various Artists
1880–1970
Albumen silver prints, tintypes, gelatin silver prints, chromogenic prints, internal dye diffusion transfer prints
2020.137.4.1-.184