Stephen Salmieri: First Photos of Coney Island, 1967 - 1972

Stephen Salmieri: First Photos of Coney Island, 1967 - 1972

“I used to be a fireball of energy – if I had two or three days a week to spare where I wasn’t on an assignment I was out with my camera in the city. I covered this city like an archeologist.” – Stephen Salmieri, Coney Island Trips, 1967 – 1972     Between 1967 and 1972, New Yorker Stephen Salmieri captured life on Coney Island. “It was my first self-assigned project at 20 years of age, having just graduated from the School of Visual Arts,” he s…