[Coney Island beach]
Photograph
[Coney Island beach]
July 4, 1949
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13 7/16 × 10 11/16 in. (34.2 × 27.2 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1978.0606.0452
Inscriptions inscribed in red ink on verso, TC: p. 161 [circled]; stamped in black ink on verso, LC: LIFE PHOTO \ BY \ ANDREAS FEININGER \ AUG 15 1949; inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: No dimination (?) of apparent (?) subject size with \ increasing distance from the camera — \ people, regardless of their distance from the observer, \ are more or less equal in size: [illegible] perspective \ through combination of telephoto lens and long \ distance between subject & camera; signed in pencil on verso, BL: A. Feininger \ 1949
