Archives65 years of photographing
A monumental difference: More reflections on W. Eugene Smith - by Harold Feinstein
One morning last week I sat down at the breakfast table and Judith greeted me with: “Wait till you hear this!” She proceeded to read me the first sentence from a blog posting she’d just come across. The author Daniel Milnor a documentary photographer living in the Southwest bemoaned “I somehow managed to graduate from… Continue reading
Up-date on the Photo League Negatives - by Harold Feinstein
Several months ago I posted a blog announcing my discovery of some negatives I took at a Photo League meeting from 63 years ago! I bemoaned the fact that I could only remember some of the faces from these photos and asked my readers to come forward with names of others I could not identify.… Continue reading
At a Photo League Meeting, 1949 — Lost and Found Photographs - by Harold Feinstein
Now that I’m 81, I often say to my wife Judith, “There’s nothing wrong with my memory, I just forgot where I put it!” So when I discovered some negatives from a Photo League meeting I attended 63 years ago buried in a box, I tried to conjure up my eighteen-year-old’s memory and put a… Continue reading
Jazz for the soul: Blue Note records, the “Jazz Loft”, and “Eric in the Evening” - by Harold Feinstein
It was 1954 and I was 23 when I became one of New York City’s first loft-dwellers. I moved into 821 Sixth Avenue in New York with painter David Young and musicians Hall Overton and Dick Carey. I hadn’t been back from Korea for too long, my marriage had ended and I was out of… Continue reading
Coney Island Memoirs: Happy Birthday Cyclone and horsing around on the carousel - by Harold Feinstein
Two items from this morning’s stroll through the newspaper brought me back to my Coney Island days. It never takes much! First of all it’s summer – and from my experience that means sand, surf, kids screaming and fond memories of Nathan’s hot dogs! Secondly, since I was born in Coney Island Hospital, I guess… Continue reading