Category: 65 years of photographing

65 years of photographing From the annals of photo history
Harold’s instructions for basic enlarging @ 1982

Prints and printmaking, part 2: The allure of the darkroom  

By Judith Thompson
Nov 25, 2019
65 years of photographing Current events
Cramped Conditions, Ship to Korea, 1953

“They were all missing someone”: Harold Feinstein’s Korean photographs, Veteran’s Day 2019  

By Judith Thompson
Nov 5, 2019
65 years of photographing Current events
Judith and Harold share a kiss at Harold’s Tribute party, 2014, © Ryan Sanborn

“It’ll always be the first kiss”: Memories for Valentine’s Day 2019  

By Judith Thompson
Feb 12, 2019
65 years of photographing From Harold's notebook...
Snake charmer Michelle Marcel, aka Demonica, of the Coney Island USA sideshow, shows off her albino python, Phantom, for passersby on the Coney Island boardwalk, while fellow sideshow performer Fred Kahl, aka The Great Fredini, sits nearby, New York, 1995.

Coney Island: All colors and every language under the sun!  

By Judith Thompson
Aug 2, 2018
65 years of photographing From the annals of photo history
One page from the Pittsburgh Project lay-out drawn by Harold Feinstein in 1956 © The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith Courtesy of the W. Eugene Smith Archive at the Center for Creative Photography.

W. Eugene Smith, Ed Thompson and the battle for creative control: A play in multiple acts  

By Judith Thompson
Nov 20, 2017
65 years of photographing News
Snake charmer on boardwalk, 1994. “It’s a multitude of all colors and every language under the sun!”

“Celebrating Feinstein’s Lasting Impression! “: From the Boston Globe  

By Judith Thompson
Jun 26, 2016
65 years of photographing About this photograph
Cyclone First Drop, 1950, Coney Island

The 2016 season opens at Coney Island: 100 free rides on the Cyclone!  3 

By Judith Thompson
Mar 29, 2016
65 years of photographing Managing an archive
An old contact sheet from the early 50’s with Harold’s notes from the darkroom.

Making contacts! Old, new and in-between  3 

By Judith Thompson
Mar 8, 2016
65 years of photographing Current events
Man and wife drinking Kruger beer, 1952. One of the prints exhibiting at Arles and also appearing in the book The life and work of Sid Grossman, which will include works by some of Grossman’s students.

“If this isn’t love, then maybe I’m crazy!” Happy Valentine’s Day 2016!  3 

By Judith Thompson
Feb 11, 2016
65 years of photographing Current events
Boy on Father’s Shoulders, 1987, © Harold Feinstein

Happy New Year 2016!  

By Judith Thompson
Jan 4, 2016
65 years of photographing Current events
Poster advertising Harold’s show at the Limelight Gallery, 1958

The Jazz Loft, The Limelight, The friendship: Harold Feinstein and W. Eugene Smith  

By Judith Thompson
Dec 13, 2015
65 years of photographing Current events
Man with his daughters at the Side Show, Coney Island, 1949 Today Dick Zigun carries on the Side Show tradition

“Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland” comes to Brooklyn Museum  1 

By Judith Thompson
Nov 30, 2015
65 years of photographing Current events
Harold’s “Guitar and cigarette”(1950) in <em>Leica World</em> published in 1957.

Harold and his Leica  1 

By Judith Thompson
Aug 24, 2015
65 years of photographing Current events
Neg- CI74_CI-28_F14 can’t find neg! Was printed by Panopticon in 2010

On Fathers and Fatherhood 2015  3 

By Judith Thompson
Jun 18, 2015
65 years of photographing Current events
Mary Ellen Mark, 1960, Philadlephia

Remembering Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015)  15 

By Harold Feinstein
May 26, 2015
65 years of photographing

Fifty-eight years ago today: The photography market before there was one!  2 

By Harold Feinstein
May 18, 2015
65 years of photographing The creative process
1970, The Bond Street Workshop, photographer unknown

Belated thanks to John Szarkowski: Reflections on the joy of teaching  4 

By Harold Feinstein
Apr 27, 2015
65 years of photographing The creative process
Man reading Torah, 1970

Passover, Easter and the promise of new life!  

By Harold Feinstein
Apr 2, 2015
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