After fleeing the worsening situation in Nazi Germany, Coppola traveled through Europe and then settled in London in late 1933, reuniting with Grete Stern, who had arrived there earlier that year. Wandering through the streets, Coppola found moments of Surrealist strangeness. At a London flea market, Coppola photographed an arrangement of various antiques and wares, with passersby caught in the reflections of the mirrors on display. The mirror in the center of the composition captures a human figure and a sculptural bust alike, uncannily equating the animate and inanimate. Throughout his London works, on view in this gallery, Coppola explores these themes and other popular Surrealist tropes such as doubling, surrogates, and an embrace of chance encounters.