Coney Island Grande
A sweeping aerial view captures the iconic Coney Island beachfront teeming with sunbathers and beachgoers, rendered in Vitali's signature large-scale, documentary style. The chromogenic print's vivid color saturation transforms the dense crowd into an almost abstract tapestry of human leisure and collective experience. Diasec mounting enhances the image's luminosity and depth, lending a crisp, cinematic quality to this panoramic study of contemporary social ritual.
- Medium
- chromogenic print, Diasec mounted
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 14, 2014
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Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955
Gursky similarly creates large scale chromogenic prints depicting dense crowds and collective human activity in vibrant color, as seen in works like Rimini and 99 Cent, where masses of people become near abstract visual patterns across a panoramic frame.
Martin Parr
British · b. 1952
Parr shares Vitali's documentary focus on leisure culture and beach scenes, photographing crowded seaside destinations with saturated color and an anthropological eye toward contemporary social rituals and collective human behavior.
Alex MacLean
American · b. 1947
MacLean produces sweeping aerial photographic surveys of human gatherings and beach landscapes that echo Vitali's bird's eye perspective, transforming densely packed sunbathers and coastal scenes into vivid, almost painterly compositions.
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