Condition Report: In very good condition. Satin finish paper. Left below the centre, two small places with minimal rubbing, each approx. 1.5 cm, perceptible only from very close in raking light. In the edges in places minimal, hardly perceptible rubbing. Upper right corner with a short slight crease mark, approx. 1.5 cm long

From Andreas Feininger to the current owner

LIFE, vol. 27, no. 3 (18. July 1949), p. 32-33 (there caption: On Fourth of July 1,500,000 Bathers Jammed Coney Island and LIFE's Andreas Feininger caught a large Number of them in this striking Picture taken a few Hours before Storm scattered them) / Andreas Feininger und Susan E. Lyman: The face of New York. The city as it was and as it is. New York 1954 (here 2. ed. 1955), unpaginated (there detail and caption: With the coming of the subway in 1920 and the opening of the boardwalk in 1921, Coney was only a nickel away and the beach was more inviting than ever. The 100,000 who visited Coney on a summer Sunday in 1900 have become 1,000,000 today. There's more doing along the boardwalk, less along Surf Avenue and the Bowery. Now it's the Parachute Jump, roller coasters, knishes and cotton candy. The music of the carousel is an almost forgotten sound. But the beach! On a summer week-end, it's crowded enough, but during a hot spell-let's see if we can find a square inch of sand to call our own.) /
Ralph Hattersley: Andreas Feininger. New York 1973, p. 102-103 (there detail) / Andreas Feininger: New York in the Forties. Weingarten 1995, p. 30-31 (there detail, titled and dated: Strand von Coney Island am 4. July 1949) / Exh. cat.: Andreas Feininger. Photographs 1928-1988. Frankfurt am Main, DG BANK Kunstförderung, 1997, p. 142-143 / Exh. cat.: Andreas Feininger. That‘s Photography. Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt, et.at., 2004, p. 178-179 (there detail) / Exh. cat.: Andreas Feininger. Ein Fotografenleben 1906-1999 / Andreas Feininger. That's Photography. Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin Museum, 2010/11, p. 134