Ferris Wheel, Asbury Park — John Margolies, 1978

Photographed by John Margolies in 1978, this vivid color image documents a Ferris wheel at Asbury Park, New Jersey. The wheel’s intricate red, white, yellow, and dark framework rises against an intensely blue sky, creating a dramatic pattern of spokes, supports, passenger cars, and intersecting structural lines.

A turquoise amusement-park building fills the lower composition, its striped roofline, repeated white doors, and architectural geometry contrasting beautifully with the circular wheel above. Saturated color and direct documentary framing give the photograph both archival significance and a remarkably graphic quality, preserving the visual character of late-1970s Jersey Shore amusement culture.

Artwork Details

• Artist: John Margolies
• Title: Ferris wheel, Asbury Park, New Jersey
• Original title: Ferris wheel, Asbury Park, New Jersey
• Series: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972–2008)
• Date: 1978
• Period: Late 20th century
• Place of Origin: Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
• Medium: Color transparency, 35 mm slide format

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