The Wonder Gallery is a collaboration between Parachute Literary Arts and the Coney Island History Project. The gallery is located at the History Project’s Exhibit Center at 3059 West 12th Street, next to the landmark Wonder Wheel.
The Wonder Gallery opens May 23 with Anders Goldfarb's photographs of Coney Island in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Coney Island Zine Machine. The Zine Machine debuts with mini-zines created by Sheepshead Bay artist Kelly Luu. The Wonder Gallery is open 1:00 PM-7:00 PM, weekends and holidays, from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day. Admission is FREE!
Lifetime Brooklyn resident Anders Goldfarb’s photographs of Coney Island, created in the late 1970s and early 1980s, are evocative and revealing portraits of residents and visitors.
He also documented Coney Island’s lost architecture and a band of Boardwalk old-timers gathering off-season at a bar during a transitional period of the neighborhood. His photographic tools are a Rolleiflex and a Leica. All of his photographs were shot with black and white film.
Kelly Luu's mini-zines, dispensed in bubbles from the Zine Machine, include tiny Dreamland postcards, the July 4th hot dog eating contest, and a “Coney Island Baby” zine: a reflection of Luu’s childhood memories of Coney Island.
Artist Bios
Anders Goldfarb has been creating documentary photography for the past 40 years and has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work is in various private and public collections. He also published several photography books, most recently Ash Avenue (2024). He assisted the famed photographer Saul Leiter (1923-2013), a friend and mentor, for many years, and currently teaches photography at Pace University in New York City.
Kelly Luu is a young artist from Sheepshead Bay, and a self-proclaimed “Coney Island baby.” Luu’s zines reflect her childhood spent with family in Coney Island. Kelly works in a variety of print mediums including book arts, zine making, photography, and letter-press. She is the Mishkin Gallery's Nagelberg Fellow and an intern at the Center for Book Arts.
More Exhibits at the Coney Island History Project
Also on view at the Coney Island History Project are historic artifacts, photographs, maps, ephemera and films of Coney Island's colorful past. Visitors are invited to take free souvenir photos with "Cy," the Spook-A-Rama Cyclops, and Coney Island's only original Steeplechase horse from the legendary ride that gave Steeplechase Park its name.
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