Stephen Salmieri’s Coney Island in black and white – in pictures

Between 1967 and 1972, Brooklyn-born photographer Stephen Salmieri captured life in Coney Island on film, now the subject of an online exhibition from Joseph Bellows Gallery. Salmieri’s vivid pictures, created with a variety of cameras and black and white film, show storefronts, games, the shoreline and the many characters who existed around them

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Main image: Stephen Salmieri captures Coney Island in 1971. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Joseph Bellows Gallery

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