Gang Fight, Coney Island, USA

Ken Heyman, American, 1930 - 2019

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1958

Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 6 11/16 × 9 5/16 in. (17 × 23.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Marina and Andrew E. Lewin, Class of 1981

© Ken Heyman

2018.26.6

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, on reverse, center top, in graphite: KHeyman / CONEY ISLAND / VINTAGE; inscribed, on reverse, top edge, in graphite: a horizontal line and a wavey line; inscribed, on reverese, top right, in black ink [label]: Said Problems / Port I - Chap 3 / Prejudice + / Discrimination; inscribed, on reverse, center right, in graphite: 3-4 / 75%; inscribed, on reverese, center far right, in blue ink: .1 / 48 [in circle] 1.85 ; inscribed, on reverse, center left, in graphite: P-1-7948 / 3; inscribed, on reverse, bottom left, in graphite: 2 [in circle] PG1 [in box] SHOOT to ["to" in black ink] 59% of ORIG SIZE bottom right 5000-- KH-2328-5 Stamped, on reverse, center, in black ink [in rectangle]: PLEASE CREDIT: / KEN HEYMAN / SIXTY-FOUR EAST FIFTY-FIFTH / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022 HA 1-4512

Provenance

Marina and Andrew E. Lewin, New York, New York; given to present collection, 2018.

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