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Centre de la photographie de Mougins, Mougins, France
Harold Feinstein Retrospective: Centre de la photographie de Mougins, Mougins, France
This major 100+ print retrospective exhibition curated by Francois Cheval will include a comprehensive monograph in French and English.The exhibition will be concurrent with the annual Arles Photo Festival and incorporated into the promotional materials for that event.
Advance publicity from the Arles Photo Festival
Media:
Eye of Photography, July 3,2023 Arles 2023:Harold Feinstein:The Wonder Wheel
Blind Magazine, July 6, 2023, Harold Feinstein’s Treasure Island, Michaël Naulin.
The Financial Times, Weekend, Life and Arts, July 9, 2023, Boardwalk Sheet Music Montage (1952), p.9, Gerogina Findlay

43, rue de l'Eglise
06250 Mougins, France
info@cpmougins.com
Phone: +33 (0)4 22 21 52 12







It's like a long gone America.
It's one of the must-see exhibitions of the year.
He framed familiar subjects in a manner that renders them remarkable -- a skill that quickly gained him the recognition and respect of his contemporaries.
[His work] is marked by a singular level of intimacy and compassion.
Whether it’s the dark undertow of childhood poverty or the loneliness of his fellow Korean War draftees, his perceptive eye is inseparable from an openhearted optimism.
This is New York School small-camera work at its best — intimate, engaged, almost intrusive... a man who loves people, takes unalloyed pleasure in seeing them enjoy themselves.
[He was] one of the most accomplished recorders of the American experience."
[A] loving portrait of a remarkable man. Worth seeking out by anyone with an interest in the history of photography... to set alongside recent portraits of Vivian Maier, Robert Frank and Gordon Parks.
2023
2022
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
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12 Jul to 10 Sep 2013
Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Harold Feinstein: Coney Island
2012
2011
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7 Aug to 10 Sep 2011
StoneCrop Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Harold Feinstein: Flowers
2010
2009
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12 Nov 2009 to 12 Jan 2010
Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Harold Feinstein: Retrospective
2006
2003
2002
2001
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15 Jun to 7 Sep 2001
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
100 Flowers of Harold Feinstein
2000
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1 Jan 2000
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1 Jan 2000
House of Photographic Art, Capistrano, CA
100 Flowers
1999
1998
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1 Jan 1998
Vibrant Gallery, NY, NY
Two Faces of Paris: Harold Feinstein and Susan Falk
1997
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1 Jan 1997
Museum of the City of New York, NY,NY
New York Photography (group show)
1996
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1 Jan 1996
Zona Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Coney Island I Love You! The Photography of Harold Feinstein
1995
1994
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10 Dec 1994 to 22 Jan 1995
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
A View to the Future: Recent Acquisitons, David Winton Bell Museum, Brown University -
1 Jan 1994
Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
Harold Feinstein and David Caras
1993
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1 Jan 1993
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Harold Feinstein’s Flowers
1991
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1 Jan 1991
Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Group Show
1990
1989
1988
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1 Jan 1988
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Group Show -
1 Jan 1988
Musée d'Art d'Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland
Group Show
1986
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1 Jan 1986
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Recent Acquisitions: Cincinnati Museum of Art -
1 Jan 1986
Union Square Gallery, NY, NY
1985
1983
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1 Jan 1983
Boston University, Boston, MA
Photos from the Collection: Ansel Adams and Harold Feinstein
1982
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1 Jan 1982
Hopoghan Gallery
Harold Feinstein
1981
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10 Jan to 6 Mar 1981
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Photographs by Harold Feinstein: Artist in Residence -
1 Jan 1981
Drew University, Madison, NJ
The Photographs of Harold Feinstein
1978
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2 Jun to 9 Jul 1978
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Photographic Crossroads: The Photo League (group show)
1977
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1 Jan 1977
The Floating Foundation of Photography, NY, NY
Group Exhibition
1976
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1 Jan 1976
River Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
New Photos from Harold Feinstein, Brattleboro, VT
1975
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1 Jan 1975
Windham Fine Arts Gallery, Putney VT
The Photographs of Harold Feinstein, Windham College Gallery
1960
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21 Dec 1960 to 5 Feb 1961
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Recent Aquisitions
1959
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5 to 19 Apr 1959
New York Coliseum, NY, NY
ART/U.S.A./59 (group show) -
1 Jan 1959
Varmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Modern American Photography (group show) -
1 Jan 1959
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Photographer’s Choice (group show) -
1 Jan 1959
Borgarsyssel Museum, Sarpsborg, Norway
American Photographers
1958
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26 Nov 1958 to 18 Jan 1959
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
Photographs from the Museum Collection
1957
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1 Jan 1957
Gallery 747, New York, New York
Harold Feinstein
1955
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1 Jan 1955
The Little Gallery, New York Public Library, NY, NY
Harold Feinstein: One man show
1954
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2 to 15 Jun 1954
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Retrospective of Art Center Prizewinners
Lumiere Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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DATE
9 Jun - 3 Sep 2023
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LOCATIONLumiere Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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Gallery Lumiere together with the development company MR Group organizes the exhibition “Life is like a movie”. It will run from June 9 to September 3, 2023.
The exhibition will include more than thirty works by foreign and Soviet authors devoted to the Art Deco style and aesthetics. Among them are Sheila Metzner, Harold Feinstein, Elliott Erwitt, and a series of shots by Soviet photographer Nikolai Drachinsky of business trips to the United States in the 1960s, which immortalized the flourishing of Art Deco architecture and the New York landscape.
Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein at Musee d’Art and d’Histoire du Judaisme, Paris
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DATE
12 - 12 February 2023
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LOCATIONMusee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme, Paris, France
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WEBSITE
mahj.org
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This day proposes to approach the work of visual artists, photographers or sculptors, through four documentaries.
- I Found Christian B., by Alain Fleischer. Disappeared in 2021, Christian Boltanski appears under the sharp gaze of filmmaker, writer and photographer Alain Fleischer.
- Dani Karavan, the artist of the great outdoors, by Barak Heymann. The Israeli director Barak Heymann captures all the humor and genius of Dani Karavan by traveling with him the world and his monumental sculptures, a few months before his death.
- Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein, by Andy Dunn. Andy Dunn introduces us to the little-known work and luminous personality of American photographer Harold Feinstein.
- This Movie is a Gift, by Anja Salomonowitz. The studio of one of the major figures of new realism, Daniel Spoerri, comes under the benevolent gaze of Austrian director Anja Salomonowitz and her son Oskar.
Streets of New York
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DATE
9 Dec 2022 - 3 Mar 2023
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LOCATIONDavid Hill Gallery, London, UK
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davidhillgallery.net
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"Feinstein began his career in 1946 at the age of 15, and by the mid 1950s was renowned for his celebrated portraits of Coney Island, later becoming one of the most prominent figures in the vanguard of the New York City street photography scene...The ultimate metropolis caught by some of the finest eyes in photographic history, Streets of New York is a fascinating insight into another time."
"Feinstein became one of the most prominent figures in the vanguard of the New York City street photography scene,"
New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection, Hofstra University Museum of Art
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DATE
6 Sep - 9 Dec 2022
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LOCATIONHofstra Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY
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www.hofstra.edu
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New York City is the star of the Hofstra University Museum of Art exhibition New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection, a showcase of black-and-white images from 1932-2008, curated by photographer Susannah Ray. The exhibition features works by photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Andreas Feininger, Harold Feinstein, Donna Ferrato, Joel Meyerowitz, Dorothy Norman, and Garry Winogrand.
“The works in this exhibition capture New York City in its infinite complexity and variety, celebrating its iconic architecture, everyday signage, authentic faces, and dynamic street scenes.” said Museum Director Karen T. Albert.
The catalogue of the exhibition.
Press Release: Photographs celebrate iconic New York City imagery.
Life as it Was: A Harold Feinstein Exhibition
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DATE
27 Jan - 26 Mar 2022
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LOCATIONGalerie Bigaignon, Paris, France
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bigaignon.com
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After two remarkable first exhibitions in 2017 and 2018, we complete what we had announced as a trilogy, with this exhibition entitled “Life as it was”.
If the first part of the retrospective devoted to the American artist who died in 2015 honored the photographer’s contagious optimism as he depicted the youth and carefree spirit of the post-war era, the second showed a selection of photographs taken between 1964 and 1988, immortalizing particular moments in the lives of New Yorkers. This new selection of photographs, made between 1949 and 1988, completes a real immersion in the daily life of his contemporaries, depicting life as it was, with a special focus on these unique characters of all ages, all social conditions, and all backgrounds the photographer liked to shoot.
This new selection of 16 black and white photographs, overwhelmingly joyful and human, transports us into what the artist defined as “a small photographic journey bearing witness to the beauty and mystery of this human life” and will be complemented throughout the exhibition by a series of screenings of the documentary entitled “Last Stop Coney Island: The Life & Photography of Harold Feinstein” made in 2019 by film director Andy Dunn.
Finally, a color photograph, never before shown, closes the exhibition. In this image, a true gem, between perfect composition and exceptional play of light, which is reminiscent of Hopper, Harold Feinstein depicts solitude, as if the artist wanted to show us through the use of color, what the modern world was to become.
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We feel the photographer's benevolence and tenderness for these anonymous people from whom he captures fragments of daily life. But the most striking thing is the benevolence and the impression of positivity that the man gives off. One cannot help thinking that the photographer resembles his images.
Harold Feinstein’s photographs bear witness to the daily life of his countrymen and once again testify to the artist’s talent. Grace and spontaneity are at the heart of his photographs and his mastery of composition is more evident than ever.
A loving observer of Coney Island, a virtuoso of black and white, he never stopped having fun with his medium...
Boardwalks, Beaches and Boulevards
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DATE
18 Jun - 14 Aug 2020
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LOCATIONCarrie Scott & David Hill Gallery, London, UK
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WEBSITE
www.carrie-scott.com
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- Media Coverage
- 2020, Air Mail Arts Intel Report, Harold Feinstein: Boardwalks, Beaches & Boulevards
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He got up-close and personal with his subjects. The images that resulted – people in Times Square, Harlem and on the crowded beaches of Feinstein’s native Coney Island – are marked by a singular level of intimacy and compassion.
Rising through the scene alongside contemporaries such as Diane Arbus, Walker Evans and Garry Winogrand, Harold Feinstein cemented his name in the art of photography with his sensitive depiction of the human condition.
Whether documenting bustling coffee shops, Harlem side streets, subways or city stoops, Feinstein's images are consistently intimate, and underpinned by a palpable sense of empathy."
San Diego Jewish Film Festival: Last Stop Coney Island
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16 - 17 February 2020
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LOCATIONSan Diego Jewish Film Festival, San Diego, CA
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mopa.org
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The west coast premiere of the documentary film Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein took place on February 16, 2020 at the Museum of Photographic Arts and again on February 17 at a local cinema. Both screenings included Q & A with Judith Thompson, Director of the Harold Feisntein Photography Trust and Deborah Klochko.
MOPA in Focus: Selected Works by Harold Feinstein
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DATE
10 February 2020
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LOCATIONMuseum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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The special viewing of Harold Feinstein photographs took place from 6:15-7:15 at MOPA’s David C. Copley Atrium as part of the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. A screening of the film followed at 7:15 with guest speaker Deborah Klochklo, Executive Director of MOPA. A second screening will took place on February 18th at The Clairemont Reading Cinema at 4:30 PM. Harold’s wife and director of the Trust, Judith Thompson, spoke at both events.
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"We are so privileged to have Harold's work in our collection at MOPA. He truly was one of the great masters of small camera photography, in addition to being a legendary teacher, and life-long experimenter. One of the forerunners of digital methods as well."
Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein,
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DATE
15 May 2019
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LOCATIONBertha DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury, London, UK
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WEBSITE
dochouse.org
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- A Conversation with director Andy Dunn and curator Carrie Scott (22min video)
- Watch Director Andy Dunn present his documentary at the Curzon Doc House theater in London
- 2019, May 17, Close Up Culture, Last Stop Coney Island: The Life And Photography Of Harold Feinstein – Film Review, J2
- 2019, July 23, Curzon Blog, Three Reasons to Watch: Last Stop Coney Island
- 2019, May 20, The Arts Desk, Last Stop Coney Island review – the life and photography of Harold Feinstein, Saskia Baron
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PHOTOS
...[A] loving portrait of a remarkable man...well worth seeking out by anyone with an interest in the history of photography.... [T]his is a worthwhile documentary to set alongside recent portraits of Vivian Maier, Robert Frank and Gordon Parks.
A rapturous portrait of a brilliant photographer and hugely charismatic character.
In putting the deserved spotlight on one of the most under-stated masters of American photography, Dunn shines a light on life itself. Life that must be enjoyed, observed and embraced at every moment. No one adhered to these rules more than Feinstein who died four years ago... A free spirit, a force of nature.
Found: A Harold Feinstein Exhibition
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14 - 19 May 2019
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LOCATIONCarrie Scott and Partners, London, UK
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WEBSITE
www.carrie-scott.com
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INFO
- Photo London Events Page
- Press Release for Found: A Harold Feinstein Exhibition
- 2019, May 14, 1854, Preserving the Legacy of Harold Feinstein, Hannah Abel-Hirsch
- 2019, May 5, The Guardian, Photographer Harold Feinstein, the unsung chronicler of Coney Island, Killian Fox
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PHOTOS & VIDEOS
The first time I saw Harold’s images I thought: “How can I build on these? Clearly, he is massively under-recognised. What is going on?” I quickly realised how important Harold’s biography is to the history of photography and that we had to tell it. And we had to tell it in a significant way.
Feinstein established himself as an eagle-eyed observer of city life, matching exquisite black-and-white compositions with a rare command of printing – one New York Times review praised the “rich blacks, brilliant middle tones and subdued highlights” in his work. His lens sought out human stories behind the windows of beauty parlours, in smoke-filled diners and on subway trains. As the critic AD Coleman puts it, the resulting images exude “a childlike wonder at the amazing diversity of the city”.
Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein
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DATE
14 November 2018
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LOCATIONDOC NYC 2018, New York, NY
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WEBSITE
www.docnyc.net
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INFO
- 2018, November 15, The Hollywood Reporter, Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein: Film Review, Sheri Linden
Photographs © Grayzon Dantzic, 2018
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PHOTOS
Last Stop would be a welcome tribute at any time, but it’s especially bracing when today’s constant deluge of visual images can’t help but dilute the impact of photography. Dunn’s film is fully attuned to the vibrancy and tenderness and sense of possibility in Feinstein’s photos, to the life in them.
Graciously Yours
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DATE
24 May - 31 Aug 2018
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LOCATIONGalerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, France
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WEBSITE
bigaignon.com
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- 2018, May 24, Art Week, Graciously Yours
- 2018, May 25, Le Monde, The photographer “Harold Feinstein saw in the street a permanent ballet of grace and beauty”, Claire Gilly
- 2018, August 15, Wall Street Journal, Harold Feinstein
- 2018, June 21, Aesthetica Magazine, Feinstein: The New York Years
- L’oeil de la Photographie, Harold Feinstein, an Elegant life lover
- Dodho, Harold Feinstein ; Graciously yours
- 2018, April 08, Elle Magazine, New York is in Paris, beautiful as you’ve never seen it (thanks to photos by Harold Feinstein), Simona Marani
- 2018, June 02, LFI, Harold Feinstein in Paris
- Promotional Film
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Harold Feinstein acts as if reality had to conform to the way he sees the world. Magnifying, with method, the latent beauty of everyday life, seems like a duty he imposed on himself. With this great ambition he took photography to another level, attaching a certain morality to it.
Anyone who looks at the work of Harold Feinstein immediately sees that what emanates from it the most is the warmth, the joy, that it reveals the greatest qualities of human beings. But when we look deeper, we see this empathetic thread, this fascination for life, in all its forms.
A Photographer’s Legacy
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16 May 2017
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LOCATIONO’Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
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WEBSITE
www.odeabank.com.tr
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Odeabank, the young and innovative bank of Turkey, continues to offer world’s prominent artists to the art community in Istanbul. The works by New Yorker Harold Feinstein, named among the most accomplished photographers of the world with his works on the change of daily routines in the USA from a simple perspective, will be available at O’Art, Odeabank’s art platform. The curator will be Coşar Kulaksız.
Feinstein considered the camera as a device which gives people a new eye and “makes them free.” He photographed the daily life in the USA from a natural, simple and humanist perspective. He was interested in the common people, not in the celebrities or the splendent living in the USA. This is what is powerful about photography, artfully reflecting the lives of common people with sincerity.
Feinstein had many awards for his works spanning 60 years which reflect the iconic Coney Island as a space of uninterrupted emotion and life. 48 of these works will be available for exhibition at O’Art until June 30th.
2017, May 22, Yenisafak, Feinstein’s legacy is in Istanbul
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Harold Feinstein photographed daily life in the most natural, simple and humanistic way.
Contagious Optimism
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DATE
3 Feb - 30 Apr 2017
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LOCATIONGalerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, France
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WEBSITE
bigaignon.com
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- 2017, Februay 27, The Eye of Photography, Harold Feinstein Retrospective, 1940s-1950s: Contagious Optimism
- 2017, February 03, Washington Post, Born in the front car of the Cyclone roller coaster, a photographer who truly adored Coney Island, Chloe Coleman
- 2017, February 01, The Guardian, Coney Island, baby! The romance of mid-century New York – in pictures
- 2017, January 06, Vogue, The exhibitions you need to see in 2017, Manon Garrigues
- 2017, February 11, L’Express, Harold Feinstein, one of the pioneers of street photography, Jacques Brunel
- 2017, February 18, L’Obs, LARGE FORMAT. Harold Feinstein’s Exuberant America
- 2017, February 12, Liberation, Harold Feinstein, the sharpness of a humanist gaze, Gilles Renault
- 2017, January 10, Aesthetica Magazine, Harold Feinstein: Contagious Optimism
- 2017, January 31, Reponses Photo, Harold Feinstein: contagious optimism, Caroline Mallet
- 2017, February, 02, LFI, Harold Feinstein Retrospective
- 2017, February 11, Monovisions, Harold Feinstein – The early years (1940’s – 1950’s): contagious optimism
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Coming from the New York avant-garde of street photography, Harold Feinstein painted an intimate portrait of an exuberant and vital America
Harold Feinstein: Retrospective
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DATE
4 - 28 August 2016
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LOCATIONBlue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
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WEBSITE
www.blueskygallery.org
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Harold Feinstein: Retrospective was the largest exhibition of a single artist ever mounted at the legendary Blue Sky gallery, including both their large and small exhhibition spaces. The exhibition included a dialgoue between Sean Corcoran, Curator of Photography at the Museum for the City of New York and Julia Dolan, the Minor White curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum. The program was entitled Harold Feinstein’s legacy and contributions to the medium.
2016, August 17, Oregon Arts Watch, Harold Feinstein’s camera was always at the ready, Paul Sutinen
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I’ve been looking at art for nearly 50 years. I rarely get a surprise anymore. I was about a quarter of the way around the front gallery at Blue Sky when I thought, “Holy smoke, who was this Harold Feinstein and why didn’t I know about him before?"
Sid Grossman From Document to Revelation. His Photographic Legacy
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4 Jul - 25 Sep 2016
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LOCATIONHoward Greenberg Gallery, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
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WEBSITE
www.rencontres-arles.com
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This exhibition included the works of five Photo League photographers who were students or close colleagues of Sid Grossman.
They included: Morris Huberland (1909-2003), Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), Sid Grossman, Rebecca Lepkoff (1916-2014), Arthur Leipzig (1918- 2014), Sy Kattelson (1923), David Vestal (1924-2013), Harold Feinstein (1931-2015)
Unwrapping the Gift: Celebrating the work and wisdom of Harold Feinstein with curator Sarah Kennel
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DATE
29 June 2016
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LOCATIONThe Firehouse Theater, Newburyport, MA
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This memorial evening marked the first anniversary of Harold Feinstein’s passing and included a presentation by Sarah Kennel, curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum. It was coordinated by Sweethaven Gallery and Blue Wave Gallery.
- 2016, June 23, The Boston Globe, Magnifying a photographer’s lasting impressions, James Sullivan
- Curator Sarah Kennel discusses the photography of Harold Feinstein
“Celebrating Feinstein’s Lasting Impression! “: From the Boston Globe
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PHOTOS & VIDEOS
“He saw more than most. Though critics began applying the phrase ‘master photographer’ to Mr. Feinstein when he was only in his 20s, he might have argued that his true mastery lay in his approach to life, as expressed through the camera in his hands.”
“There’s definitely such a strong thread of love for the human comedy. At this particular moment, there’s something important about looking at those [Coney Island] pictures. They show such a wonderful mix of people, different classes, ages, and races coming together. At some level, that seems to be missing from American culture at this moment.”
Galerie 51
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DATE
25 June 2016
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LOCATIONFifty- One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
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WEBSITE
www.gallery51.com
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INFO
Gallery FIFTY ONE is pleased to announce its summer exhibition “Backstory”: a group show about back-view portraits. Unlike the traditional, frontal portraiture where the facial expression gives away a straightforward identity; portraits shot from behind are more narrative due to its anonymity. Here, the signifiers of the frame are key players to resolve the mystery of the back and telling its story. The work of different photographers will be juxtaposed, taken over the past half century, in different continents, in studio or urban settings. It will give a glimpse of the visual and the imaginary language of the back portrait.
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A more poetic, dreamlike vision is created in Masao Yamamoto’s cropped composition of two
boys and in Harold Feinstein’s Flowing hair on Back. Through visual assumptions the spectator
is engaged to project its memories and emotions into the images completing the stories.
The mystery of a back is increased when the elements of its background are stripped away.
Recent Acquisitions: The Fitchburg Art Museum
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8 Apr 2016 - 5 Mar 2017
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LOCATIONThe Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
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WEBSITE
fitchburgartmuseum.org
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INFO
Photographs in this exhibition feature prints acquired during the past year, as well as promised gifts that will contribute to the expansion of the FAM’s photography collection.
Visitors will see different modes of expression on view here: Lucien Aigner’s photojournalistic pictures of the New York scene; Harold Feinstein’s personal records of Army life in the Korean War and of Coney Island; S.B. Walker’s unique take on Walden Pond; Garry Winogrand’s iconic New York street pictures; Al Fisher’s compelling studies of Boston street performers; Victor Landweber’s surreal images from his Artist to Artist series; and Carl Chiarenza’s elegantly structured abstractions.
Harold Feinstein’s Coney Island
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3 - 21 September 2015
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LOCATIONLeica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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WEBSITE
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Harold Feinstein’s Coney Island opened at the Leica Gallery LA on September 3rd, 2015. It was the first exhibition after Harold’s death on June 20th and consisted of 25 of Feinstein’s iconic Coney Island images from 1946 – 1995. The show, which will hang throughout September, also included Al Satterwite‘s aRound New York series.
See also:
“Harold Feinstein’s Coney Island” Opens at the Leica Gallery LA
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Feinstein's first Leica IIIc was a gift from his long-time friend, W. Eugene Smith in 1950. Many of Feinstein's most iconic Coney Island photographs were taken with that camera, which he also took with him to the Korean War. He called it his "work horse; simple, reliable and indestructible."
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008
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31 Jan - 31 May 2015
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LOCATIONWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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WEBSITE
www.thewadsworth.org
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Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland is the first major exhibition to use visual art as a lens to explore the lure that Coney Island exerted on American culture over a period of 150 years. An extraordinary array of artists viewed Coney Island as a microcosm of the American experience, from its beginnings as a watering hole for the wealthy, through its transformation into an entertainment mecca for the masses, to the closing of Astroland Amusement Park following decades of urban decline.
Coney Island features more than 140 objects—paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals—supplemented by ephemera and film clips. This is the first exhibition in the museum’s newly expanded and renovated special exhibition galleries.
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland is curated by Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank, Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture.
The Cyclone!The Hot Dogs!The Art!, The New York Times, November 18, 2015.
As a great chronicler of the extraordinary place, Feinstein’s photographs provide a vital record of its changing demographics over time...[His photograph Man and
Daughters at Sideshow] explores voyeurism and exhibitionism, and reveals how Coney Island served as a laboratory for social experimentation, addressing issues of class, race, and the relationships between spectators and performers.
View from the Street: Harold Feinstein and Vivian Maier
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DATE
16 Dec 2014 - 17 Jan 2015
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LOCATIONLumiere Fine Art Photography, Atlanta, GA
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WEBSITE
lumieregallery.net
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INFO
- 2014, December 16, Arts ATL, Review: Lumière’s “View from the Street” a lively dialogue between Harold Feinstein, Vivian Maier, Virginie Kippelen
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This pairing of the artists’ street photography makes for an intellectually stimulating dialogue between them — and the viewer. Feinstein possesses a vibrant personality. He is beloved as a photographer, teacher and mentor. His approach to self-portraits is more playful, a way to affirm his presence and add complexity...Feinstein is best known, perhaps, for his highly regarded series of his native Coney Island, which has offered him an inexhaustible palette of human emotions for the last six decades.
Harold Feinstein Retrospective
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DATE
12 Sep - 26 Oct 2014
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LOCATIONLumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
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WEBSITE
photography-now.com
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INFO
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of the recognized master photographer Harold Feinstein. Most of his photographs are devoted to his native Coney Island, the peninsula, whose appearance had been constantly changing under the influence of immigrants from different parts of the world. The beach is a figurative playground where America had been maturing as a nation. Nevertheless Feinstein’s breadth and exposure are far wider that urban landscape softened by the presence of the ocean, the beach and the bright sun. His work covers a wide array of subjects, including portraits and urban scenes. His first retrospective exhibition in Moscow also features some of his best known street photographs as well as his lesser known, but recently released images from his life as an army draftee during the Korean War and some nudes, still-life and photomontages.
- Independent Media, Harper’s Bazaar Art at Harold Feinstein Exhibition
- Additional Media
Book Signing for Harold Feinstein at Aperture Gallery, NYC
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DATE
17 December 2012
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LOCATIONAperture Gallery, NY, NY
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WEBSITE
www.ai-ap.com
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On December 12, 2012, a full house gathered at Aperture Gallery in New York to celebrate the launch of Harold Feinstein:A Retrospective published by Nazraeli Press. Harold was joined by photo historian A.D.Coleman and Sean Corcoran, curator of photography at the Museum for the City of New York for a panel discussion about Harold’s work. In addition dozens of Harold’s students from the New York area came out. The book was later selected as one of the best photo books of the year by Photo District News for the year 2012.
Harold Feinstein Retrospective
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14 Sep - 30 Oct 2012
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LOCATIONPanopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
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www.panopticongallery.com
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Grunts
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9 December 2011
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LOCATIONPanopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
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Grunts is military vernacular for United States Army or Marine foot soldiers, the mass of devoted men and women who make up the bulk of the armed services. Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the bombing at Pearl Harbor, Panopticon Gallery presents Grunts: The G.I. Experience, curated by Jim Fitts.
Harold Feinstein’s friendship with the New York Photo League founder, Sid Grossman, resulted in him not being ranked as an official armed serviced photographer. Therefore, he documented from the viewpoint of a fellow G.I. serving in Korea. Photographs show draftees being inducted, and soldiers on troopships, reading, sleeping and marching. The body of work also contains images of the historical integration of the armed services.
A selection of vintage photographs by Robert Capa and numerous press photographs from WWII compliment Feinstein’s work. The pictures are memoirs of the common American soldier during WWII. The majority of the images focus on the events between battles, though some illustrate combat.
Grunts, blog post by curator Jim Fitts,
“Seeing GIs fight the good fight“, Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe, December 13, 2011.
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What makes so many of Feinstein’s photographs so interesting to look at is how vividly they capture the tedium his sitters were experiencing. Titles are self-explanatory: “Cigarette Break,’’ “View From the Porthole,’’ “Reading Blondie Comics,’’ “Four GIs Asleep on a Bench,’’ “Sleeping in Mud.’’ How could Feinstein not have had such an appreciation for the oppressive emptiness of so much of military life? He was himself a soldier, though not an official photographer, at the time he took these pictures.
"Feinstein's 21 black and white prints convey the mid-century innocence of the Boy Next Door sent to fight in a foreign land."
Radical Camera: The Photo League (group show)
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4 Nov 2011 - 25 Mar 2012
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LOCATIONThe Jewish Museum, NY, NY
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thejewishmuseum.org
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The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936–1951 is the first comprehensive museum survey in three decades of the famed photography group’s work, history, artistic significance, and cultural, social, and political milieu. Drawing from two extensive Photo League museum collections housed at The Jewish Museum in New York City and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, the exhibition includes 150 vintage photographs by more than sixty Photo League members.
Living Legend Award, Arthur Griffin Museum of Photography
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2 October 2011
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LOCATIONThe Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
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griffinmuseum.org
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It was a gala evening at the Exchange Center in downtown Boston on October 2, 2011. Hundreds of people came to see Griffin Museum’s annual Focus Awards and honor four awardees, among them Harold Feinstein who, at 80, received the first ever Living Legend award. In true form Feinstein regaled the crowd with stories and bawdy humor.
Other honorees included Alison Nordstrom, curator of the George Eastman House for Lifetime Achievement and Eileen Gittens the CEO of Blurb, who received the Rising Star Award.
Harold Feinstein: Master Photographer
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11 April 2011
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LOCATIONLumiere Fine Art Photography, Atlanta, GA
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lumieregallery.net
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“Master” appropriately summarizes his 70 year career in photography.
Selection of his work at age 19 by Edward Steichen for MoMA’s permanent collection, membership in the Photo League, essays in major publications, nine books and presence in other notable museum collections testify to the broad recognition of Harold Feinstein.
Lumière has curated this new exhibition – the 40th in its series on accomplished artists – with selections that highlight his creativity, diversity and consistent excellence. From black and white images of the urban landscape to color still lifes of flora and seashells, Feinstein’s prints radiate energy.
Feinstein had his first exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1954 and his first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957. That year, New York Times photo writer, Jacob Deschin, declared Feinstein’s work “the new pictorialism,” and a year later H.M. Kinzer of Photography Annual said:
At the age of 26, Harold Feinstein has reached the point in his photographic career when the word ‘master’ is being applied to his prints by some ordinarily cautious critics.
Two Masters: Harold Feinstein and Wynn Bullock
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20 Mar - 19 May 2010
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LOCATIONSee+ Gallery, Beijing, China
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WEBSITE
www.artinasia.com
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Wynn Bullock and Harold Feinstein influenced hundreds of photographers in the history of photography. Feinstein was considered by the photo world as something of a child prodigy, and Bullock decided to become a photographer when he was 42. Their works have been included in over 90 major museum collections around the world and have received substantial critical acclaim during their lives.They also published numerous books and their names appeared in all standard histories.They have in common a reverence to the natural world, and a belief that it can reveal its complexity and mysterious order to the patient observer.The consequent breadth of their investigation of the medium makes them the most experimental photographers in photography history.they reveal familiar things in such shocking, beautiful and honest ways.Those mysterious images make manifest their exploration of the concept of the relationship between linguistic study, space, human beings and nature, and their meanings to photography.The works have deepened our view on natureʼs evolution.
Curated by A.D. Coleman
“Seeing the life in which we live: Photographs of Harold Feinstein” Curatorial statement, A.D. Coleman
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Harold Feinstein is a true photographer's photographer, and one of the most seriously under-recognized senior figures in U.S. photography...Whether he worked in his hometown or elsewhere, this is New York School small-camera work at its best — intimate, engaged, almost intrusive...[T]his is the work of a man who loves people, takes unalloyed pleasure in seeing them
enjoy themselves, likes to get very close to them — and, by rendering their physicality in
tactile, nuanced prints, engrosses the viewer in the sensual, material world they occupy.
At the same time, Feinstein has a solitudinous aspect that leads him to register
moments of inner stillness and pastoral tranquility."
Coney Island of the Heart
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26 Mar - 5 Jul 2008
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LOCATIONBond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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WEBSITE
1995-2015.undo.net
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Bond Street Gallery’s inaugural exhibition is Coney Island of the Heart, centered on the work of Harold Feinstein. It celebrates the history of Coney Island as the playground of the working-class melting pot through exuberant and singular images of the Jews, Italians, African-Americans, Russians, Puerto Ricans, and others who have played there. Other photographers on display include: Bruce Davidson, Bruce Gilden, Sid Grossman, Harold Roth, and Henri Silberman.
About Love
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16 Jul 2006 - 16 Sep 2022
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LOCATIONCandace Dwan Gallery and Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY, NY
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WEBSITE
www.nailyaalexandergallery.com
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Candace Dwan and Nailya Alexander Galleries are pleased to announce a summer exhibition of photographs, About Love, opening on July 6, 2006.
About Love will include photographs by both famous and less known artists as Kristoffer Albrecht, Richard Avedon, Edouard Boubat, Harold Feinstein, Larry Fink, Lori Grinker, Chester Higgins, Leon Levenstein, Archie Lieberman, Mathieu Borysevicz, James Nicholls, Anna Norton, Lucian Perkins, Pentti Sammallahti, Igor Savchenko, Gerald Slota, Sabine Weiss, Yu Zhang, and Alexander Zhitomirsky.
About Love explores a romantic notion of love through images made in the eighty years from 1926‐2006. It is a photographic journey that we hope will draw the viewer into the passion, sweetness and joy of love.
Harold Feinstein’s One Hundred Seashells
Harold Feinstein: Retrospective from the permanent collection
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1 January 2003
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LOCATIONSnite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
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This exhibition shares some of master photographer Harold Feinstein’s work from the permanent collection, which contains 52 vintage black and white photographs from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Harold Feinstein: Photographer’s Choice – Four Decades
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26 January 2001
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LOCATIONHofstra Museum, Hempstead, NH
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- 2001, February 04, The New York Times, ART REVIEWS; Capturing the Seen and Unseen in Photographs, Phyllis Braff
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A sense of Mr. Feinstein's wide mastery of the photographic vocabulary comes across, too, in an image of boys running in the surf. Their dark limbs angled against swirling white ocean ripples creates an all-over pattern that has the swiftness and energy of an Abstract Expressionist work.
Streets and Public Places
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1 January 2001
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LOCATIONCandace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY
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- 2001, January 08, The New York Times, Street Photos That Turn Viewers Into Storytellers, Dominick Lombardi
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Cigar Man/Coney Island'' (1950) by Harold Feinstein is one of this exhibition's best examples of a whole photograph's ability to say more than its components individually. The subject, a cigar-smoking ticket taker, stands at the top of a hall stairwell as he awaits those eager to enter his strip-tease show. The lone light source, which can be seen at the very top of the print, seems to represent truth while the curtain behind the subject suggests blind faith.
Harold Feinstein: Flowers
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13 Apr - 20 May 2000
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LOCATIONJulie Saul Gallery, NY, NY
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WEBSITE
juliesaulprojects.com
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The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce a photographic exhibition of flowers by Harold Feinstein. The show in our second gallery will include a small selection from the more than one hundred images which have recently been compiled in a beautiful hardbound edition by Bullfinch Press. Noted photography critic A.D. Coleman has written an insightful introduction to the book. These stunning color portraits of flowers have been digitally enhanced and fill the picture field with sensual, and bold but delicate forms. They combine the attention to structure and form of Karl Blossfelt’s botanical studies with the seductive color and obsessive detail of 17th century Dutch still life painting.
Harold Feinstein began taking pictures as a teenager in 1946. He worked in black and white, on the street, and was particularly drawn to Coney Island as a subject. Edward Steichen, director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art became an early advocate. In addition to MoMA, other institutions which own and have exhibited Feinstein’s work include the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House and the Museum of the City of New York.
Signed copies of the book will be available at the reception.
Computer World Smithsonian Award
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LOCATIONSmithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
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The Computerworld Smithsonian Award is given out annually to individuals who have used technology to produce beneficial changes for society. Nominees are proposed by a group of 100 CEOs of information technology companies. The award has been given since 1989.
Harold Feinstein was nominated by Epson, Inc. Feinstein created his spectacular scanography images using Epson equipment. The company called his work a Celebration of Life using Digital Imaging, highlighting the contribution of his recent book One Hundred Flowers. They described it as ” an Audobon-like volume of flower images produced exclusively with digital techniques demonstrates a degree of artistic control over the color process that is revolultionizing the possibilities of color photography.”
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They described it as " an Audobon-like volume of flower images produced exclusively with digital techniques demonstrates a degree of artistic control over the color process that is revolultionizing the possibilities of color photography."
Harold Feinstein: A Garden of Psalms
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26 Jan - 26 Mar 1999
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LOCATIONIris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester, MA
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WEBSITE
news.holycross.edu
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WORCESTER, Mass. – A Garden of Psalms: Photographs and Words, an exhibition by Harold Feinstein, will run from Tuesday, Jan. 26 to Feb. 28, in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross. There will be an opening reception on Jan. 26, from 4:30-6 p.m. in the gallery, located in O’Kane Hall.
Feinstein will talk about his work in the gallery on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 12 p.m. Admission to all events is free and open to the public.
“A Garden of Psalms” is a series of digital images of flowers and other plant forms accompanied by brief “songs.” These color prints (variously Kodak Pegasus, IRIS and Epson prints) are startling in their intensity and, at the same time, deeply meditative. They offer the viewer a sharply focused distallation of the complexity of the natural world with all its variety, rationality and accident.
Famous as a photographer of New York City street life, he is perhaps best known for his photographs of Coney Island taken over the course of five decades. Other black and white portfolios include photographs from the Korean War as well as landscapes. The subjects of his color work range from the natural forms of flowers and seashells to the created form of architecture and the sculpture of Auguste Rodin.
His work has been widely exhibited and published. Recent exhibitions include Metropolis – City of Light at New York’s Municipal Art Society in 1995 and A Coney Island of the Heart at the International Center of Photography in 1990. His photo essays have been published in a number of major periodicals, including Life, Audubon, and Connoisseur. By the time he was 19, his work had been purchased by Edward Steichen for the permanent collection of many international institutions.
100 Years of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism, Highlights from the Permanent Collection
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12 Jan - 30 Jun 1996
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LOCATIONInternational Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
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WEBSITE
www.icp.org
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This exhibition presents a selective overview of the defining moments in documentary and photojournalistic practice from the 1880s to the present day. The show features over 25 photographers, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marion Post Wolcott, W. Eugene Smith, and Mary Ellen Mark, who seek to chronicle the human condition in all of its vagaries.
Harold Feinstein: Metropolis
There is no darkroom or computer trickery in the process; the photographs show what Feinstein sees through the viewfinder. And the images achieve exactly what he had hoped they would. "We've forgotten the vitality and awesome monumentality of this metropolis. On one hand, you want to see your subject well. On the other, you want to be caught off guard, to retain the spontaneity. If you know it too well, you stop seeing it."
Photographs of New York City buildings taken between 1989-1994 whose abstract prisms of shadow and light bring to mind Georgia O'Keefe's paintings.
Harold Feinstein: A Coney Island of the Heart
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7 Sep - 25 Nov 1990
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LOCATIONInternational Center of Photography, NY, NY
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WEBSITE
www.icp.org
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This exhibition looks at forty-four years of photographs of Coney Island captured by Harold Feinstein. A Coney Island Kind of Heart looks at an ethnic melting pot of New Yorkers, colorful fortune tellers, hot dog vendors, babies, grandmothers, and carnival queens.
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“Here is New York small camera school at its best; humanistic, engaging, almost intrusive… [T]his is the work of a man who loves people, takes unalloyed pleasure in seeing them enjoy themselves, likes to get close to them – and, by rendering their physicality in tactile, nuanced prints, enmeshes the viewer in the sensual, material world his ‘subjects’ occupy.”
Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective
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6 Feb - 5 Mar 1989
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LOCATIONZoller Gallery, Penn State, University Park, PA
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This retrospective show from the University’s permanent collection, features 73 photographs from Feinstein’s oeuvre over the past 40 years, from Coney Island to Vermont to the Korean War, in addition to color dye transfer prints of flowers Feinstein calls Sky Flowers. The artist will be at the opening and give and opening talk to the public in the evening.
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It seems that no matter how ordinary the situation or how simple the person, Feinstein breathes excitement and emotion into the scene.
His encouragement to all people, whether they are artists or not, seemed to inspire everyone listening to him, and they way he talked made everyone believe. As an exhibit, Harold Feinstein's Retrospective 1944 to 1988 is enough to move you. As an artist, Feinstein is enough to inspire you.
Views and Visions: Recent American Landscape Photographs
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26 Apr - 1 Jun 1986
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LOCATIONThe Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
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WEBSITE
thealdrich.org
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City Light, An exhibition of photographs of the American City
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28 Oct 1985 - 11 Jan 1986
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LOCATIONInternational Center of Photography, NY, NY, USA
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WEBSITE
www.icp.org
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Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective
The photographs in Harold Feinstein's show at the Midtown Y Gallery—his first in New York, in over a decade—indicate that Feinstein is not afraid to be either specific or emotional. This is a welcome quality, doubly so since Feinstein is a well‐known and influential teacher of photography; too many of his confreres are busily telling students that the goal of photographic imagery is to be vague and remote, as a means of achieving that ambiguity so necessary for making Art. Feinstein, as I said, is quite the opposite.
New Photographs by Harold Feinstein
Harold Feinstein's photographic career has been a story of an artist- craftsman's continual exploration. One might call it perhaps the new pictorialism... the refinement of the craft as a technically perfected language, not as an end in itself, but as the eloquent vehicle of an individual's need to say something worthwhile in pictures. The deeper the meaning, the greater the demand on the photographers capacities, both technically and expressively to exploit the subtleties of the craft. Mr. Feinstein is well aware of the disciplines involved and works painstakingly to achieve perfection.
No one interested in photography as an intensely personal means of communication can afford to miss Harold Feinstein's new work at limelight. Pictures in depth are rare. Those that combined quiet power with an unusual economy of style are rare yet clearly in the 12 years that Feinstein has been taking pictures he has further developed his magnificent sense of composition to produce work of strong content with great sculptural quality. Yet any fundamental evaluation of Feinstein's approach encompasses it's rare ability to see form in terms of mass, and to integrate the totality of his concepts without including a single unnecessary detail
70 Photographers Look at New York
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27 Nov 1957 - 15 Apr 1958
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LOCATIONMuseum of Modern Art, NY, NY
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WEBSITE
www.moma.org
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Harold Feinstein Solo Exhibition
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15 Jul - 31 Aug 1957
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LOCATIONGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, NY
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Exhibition ’51: Five Photographers
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11 May - 15 Jun 1951
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LOCATIONThe Camera Club, NY, NY
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Mr. Feinstein’s pictures of his home are his best. His pictures show a subtle appreciation of design and form with some leaning toward experimentation.