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Smithsonian Magazine 5th Annual Photo Contest
People Americana Altered Images The Natural World Travel
Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat Birthday cake and candles
Tjay Head, a 6 year-old on the Crow Creek Reservation, plays an all-American game near his family's ceremonial tipis. A Navajo guide awaits the next group of tourists to his business in Monument Valley, AZ.
Roaring Creek Valley Little League - B Team silhouetted on dugout wall after last game of the season. Neon Lights on Outside of Bar in Galveston, Texas
Illuminated by spotlights, the Washington Monument gleams against the nightime sky. Cadillac at the Blue Swallow Hotel, Route 66
A view of the Russian Orthodox Church through the window of the historic hotel on St George Island, Alaska. Coney Island isolation booth

A Coney Island isolation booth
Paula Botstein (Brooklyn, NY)
Photographed July 2006, Coney Island, NY


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This certainly captures a bygone period and the remnants that still remain, along with some of the loneliness for those that are still part of the landscape.

The image is timeless in the same way that Coney Island seems to have always been part of America.

Knowing that the Coney Island of rides and booths and fast food, characters and wanderers, is fast disappearing, this photo is nostalgic for old good times.

I think people read a lot into the Navaho picture that wasn't there. This picture really captures the late night feeling of a any carnival. It reminds me of some Hopper paintings.

Lovely - a look back at old times, perhaps but still lovely.

A very beautiful photo. Great lighting. The photographer has a new destiny, a la Cartier-Bresson.

The photo evokes the contrasts and disjunctions of Coney Island today. It's both sad and ironic, evocative if you've been there and mysterious if you haven't.

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