City Museum presents 1960s Coney Island photos
The Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan is presenting “In a World of Their Own: Coney Island Photographs by Aaron Rose, 1961-1963,” the first exhibition of the photographer’s images of sunbathers and swimmers at Brooklyn’s most famous beach.
The diversity of people –and what they are doing — is immediately arresting, as the photographs capture intimate portraits of regular and uninhibited New Yorkers in a world of their own.
Featuring 70 unseen photographs, the exhibition will include one section showcasing individuals and couples and another featuring the crowded beach and onlookers on the Coney Island boardwalk.