Last Year at Coney Island: April 7, 2007

Written By John Rash




(c)2007 John F Rash / RASHPHOTO






New York, Brooklyn, Coney Island: 4/7/2007. Just a few days before the last season of carnival-type rides at the historic Coney Island. Looking forward to a future of condos and Las Vegas-style developments saddens the hearts of anyone who has visited the famous Astroland amusement park. The sideshow area and half of the carnival rides have already been removed to leave leveled lots which now await their facelift. I hope to visit Coney Island a few times this year and gather more photos before the landscape of the park is changed forever. This should the the first in a series of posts over the course of the next year.

All images and words ©2006 Rash Photo / John F Rash.

John Rash

John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based in Oxford, Mississippi. John earned his M.F.A. in Documentary and Experimental Art from Duke University and B.F.A. in Art Education from UNC-Greensboro, and now works as Assistant Professor of Film Production and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. His documentary films and photographs often focus on topics of identity, counter-culture communities, social justice, and environment and have been shown in festivals and museums around the world. John has received multiple awards for his documentary works including the Soul of Southern Film Award from Indie Memphis Film Festival for Negro Terror, History+ Best Documentary Award from the North Carolina Museum of History for Our Movement Starts Here, and an Emmy nomination for his film about South Carolina-based photographer Sam Wang. John is also the founder of the Southern Punk Archive which aims to preserve the stories of DIY punk communities in the American South. In 2025, John was an Artist in Residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai and a resident artist at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN in 2022.

https://www.johnrash.com
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