On April 5th, Sunday, we went to Coney Island for an individual photo shooting. Even for those who have never been here, Coney Island would be placed in their memories since it has been featured in numerous movies. The first time I knew about this place was through the movie “He got game(1998, Spike Lee film).”
The weather was great, and the amusement park and the beach were filled with couples, families, and friends who came to celebrate the beginning of spring.
< This is a pictorial map of the amusement park in Coney Island I found there. The ratio and exact distance is somewhat inaccurate, but the value of this map is that it provides the important topographic information of the place it represents. To see it bigger, click on the image.
(Photograph by Casey Wolf)
In Tim Cresswell's book, "Place: a short introduction", amusement park is introduced as representing the notion of placelessness. "Places such as Disneyworld are not real places but 'placeless' places or 'psuedo-places' with no real history and no sense of belonging"(Cresswell, P.46). However, after taking pictures of the buildings, people, landscape, and their relationship to each other, Coney Island came to me as a place with history and memory. The rusty buildings and outdated game machines evoked a sense of past and historical value. Needless to say, Nathan's hotdog played a big role in forming memory and authenticity to this place.
Take a look at the slideshow of the Coney Island picture.
After the photo shoot in Coney Island, we headed for the pizza place called “Spumoni Garden” in 86th Street, Brooklyn. The pizza was absolutely delicious, and we had a huge ice cream for free thanks to the nice Brooklyn man working for the restaurant.
(Left: Professor John Schott with the ice cream)
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