Nice review of 'Peter Kayafas: Coney Island Waterdance' @dailymail via linkinbio! Dusica Sue Malesevic writes, "When Peter Kayafas moved to NYC, he knew exactly where he wanted to go to photograph: Coney Island. Packed with people, attractions and characters, the seaside has long lured photographers – from Walker Evans to Weegee – and Kayafas wanted to see what he could contribute to its chronicling. On his first trip to the Brooklyn beach, he saw the men and women of the @coney_island_polarbear_club barreling into the biting winter water. He told DailyMail.com: 'Right away, I knew I wanted to be a part of it.' That encounter on a November day in 1990 sparked his decades-long documentation of the destination. Kayafas was the first photographer to take the plunge with the Polar Bears, at least according to them, and take their picture while in the water. After that winter, Kayafas returned to the ocean summer after summer and hiding his camera underwater until the last moment, he made black-and-white portraits of people swimming, clinging, diving, freezing and leaping. Seen behind the New Yorkers and visitors is the neighborhood's celebrated shoreline dotted with iconic rides like the Wonder Wheel and the rollercoaster Cyclone. Thirty of these pictures are part of his new book, 'Coney Island Waterdance.' 'These images are, for me, like passages from some primal, beautiful ballet—the energy, gesture, and emotion of the narrative rising and falling with the subjects on the waves,' he wrote." @pkayafas #peterkayafas #coneyisland #photobook #coneyislandpolarbearclub #polarbearclub #coneyislandpolarbears #coneyislandswimmers https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-ioThlGFv/?utm_medium=tumblr
