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Year nine: The wisdom that is truly your own by Judith Thompson
Generally I’m tracking this day for at least a week before it arrives, but when I woke up this morning at 4:30 because the sun announced itself to my eyes, I thought: “Hmmm, it’s getting earlier and earlier. How I love these longer days.” Then I thought, “Solstice!” Then I sat up-right in bed and… Continue reading
Comeraderie and comfort in the face of war: Harold Feinstein’s Draftee photographs in an upcoming exhibition by Judith Thompson
“As I look at these photographs now I see again through the eyes of a 21-year-old from Coney Island, fresh off the boardwalk and thrown into a situation with my peers who could’ve been at Coney Island with me riding the cyclone or flirting with their girlfriend under the boardwalk, or cruising around town on… Continue reading
All about love: New photos from The Harold Feinstein Archive for Valentine’s Day 2024 by Judith Thompson
It’s Valentine’s Day and I wanted to put out a short post sharing a few new images from the studio that share the way the Harold saw and honored love. It the primary impetus behind all of his work. Here is a 35 second audio clip where he talks about seeing with the eyes of… Continue reading
Art transcends politics: Feinstein in group show in Moscow’s Lumiere Brothers Gallery by Judith Thompson
When I first received a Google alert about Harold’s work being exhibited in part of a group show entitled “Life is like a movie” at Lumiere Brothers Gallery in Moscow (formerly Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography), I searched the internet to find out more. Nothing came up. So I decided to contact the gallery. Given… Continue reading
Year eight: Still basking by Judith Thompson
HAROLD FEINSTEIN (April 17, 1931 – June 20, 2015) This year I am marking the commemoration of Harold’s passing by preparing to head to France for the exciting retrospective of his work at the Mougins Centre for Photography. If you missed my post of that you can find it here. Thus, on this solstice day… Continue reading
Major Feinstein Retrospective: Mougins Centre for Photography, Arles Photo Festival by Judith Thompson
Opening on June 30th and running through October 3rd, a 101 print Harold Feinstein retrospective entitled “The Wheel of Wonder” will be exhibited at
Year Seven: Walking the Labyrinth by Judith Thompson
“There is no right way to walk a labyrinth.” So says my good friend, Cameron Sesto, brilliant artist and labyrinth maker. For the past several years she, Allie Davis, also an artist in deed and soul, and myself, have come together weekly on zoom to share inspiration and creative longings arising initially from the COVID… Continue reading
Year Six: Still Learning from Harold by Judith Thompson
What I do know is that I so frequently come across something Harold has written and I pause to digest the sychronicity of how it comes at just the right moment. Sometimes I cry. Not the kind of deep grieving crying of the earlier years (though that does happen too), but more a kind of poignant… Continue reading
- 65 years of photographing
- About this photograph
- Commemorating Harold
- Covid-19
- Current events
- Currently exhibiting
- From Harold's notebook...
- From the annals of photo history
- Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein
- Managing an archive
- News
- Remembering Harold
- Spotlight on my students
- The creative process
- #BlackLivesMatter
- Acik Radyo
- AIPAD
- analog
- archive management
- archiving
- army
- available light
- awards
- black and white
- Blue Note records
- Boardwalk Sheet Music
- books
- botanicals
- cameras
- Carrie Scott
- children
- color
- Coney Island
- Covid 19
- creative control
- darkroom
- DOC NYC
- documentaries
- documentary
- draftee
- Earth Day
- editing
- Edward Steichen
- estate prints
- exhibitions
- Father's Day
- fathers
- flowers
- galleries
- Getty Images
- gratitude
- Helen Gee
- Holidays
- Hurricane Sandy
- In memoriam
- Jacob Deschin
- Jazz Loft
- Judith
- July 4th
- Korean War
- Last Stop Coney Island
- Limelight Gallery
- love
- Lumiere Atlanta
- Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
- managing an archive
- Mariette Pathy Allen
- media
- Memorial Day
- mother's day
- New images
- news
- New York
- night photography
- obituary
- PDN
- photo commentary
- Photo League
- photomontage
- printing
- racial reckoning
- retrospective
- Rodin
- Sid Grossman
- social issues
- street photography
- students
- teaching
- the creative process
- The Cyclone
- the gift of life
- The Griffin Museum of Photography
- The International Center for Photography
- Times Square
- Valentine's Day
- Veteran's Day
- W. Eugene Smith
- Wonder Wheel
Year nine: The wisdom that is truly your own by Judith Thompson
Generally I’m tracking this day for at least a week before it arrives, but when I woke up this morning at 4:30 because the sun announced itself to my eyes, I thought: “Hmmm, it’s getting earlier and earlier. How I love these longer days.” Then I thought, “Solstice!” Then I sat up-right in bed and… Continue reading
Comeraderie and comfort in the face of war: Harold Feinstein’s Draftee photographs in an upcoming exhibition by Judith Thompson
“As I look at these photographs now I see again through the eyes of a 21-year-old from Coney Island, fresh off the boardwalk and thrown into a situation with my peers who could’ve been at Coney Island with me riding the cyclone or flirting with their girlfriend under the boardwalk, or cruising around town on… Continue reading
All about love: New photos from The Harold Feinstein Archive for Valentine’s Day 2024 by Judith Thompson
It’s Valentine’s Day and I wanted to put out a short post sharing a few new images from the studio that share the way the Harold saw and honored love. It the primary impetus behind all of his work. Here is a 35 second audio clip where he talks about seeing with the eyes of… Continue reading
Art transcends politics: Feinstein in group show in Moscow’s Lumiere Brothers Gallery by Judith Thompson
When I first received a Google alert about Harold’s work being exhibited in part of a group show entitled “Life is like a movie” at Lumiere Brothers Gallery in Moscow (formerly Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography), I searched the internet to find out more. Nothing came up. So I decided to contact the gallery. Given… Continue reading
Year eight: Still basking by Judith Thompson
HAROLD FEINSTEIN (April 17, 1931 – June 20, 2015) This year I am marking the commemoration of Harold’s passing by preparing to head to France for the exciting retrospective of his work at the Mougins Centre for Photography. If you missed my post of that you can find it here. Thus, on this solstice day… Continue reading
Major Feinstein Retrospective: Mougins Centre for Photography, Arles Photo Festival by Judith Thompson
Opening on June 30th and running through October 3rd, a 101 print Harold Feinstein retrospective entitled “The Wheel of Wonder” will be exhibited at
Year Seven: Walking the Labyrinth by Judith Thompson
“There is no right way to walk a labyrinth.” So says my good friend, Cameron Sesto, brilliant artist and labyrinth maker. For the past several years she, Allie Davis, also an artist in deed and soul, and myself, have come together weekly on zoom to share inspiration and creative longings arising initially from the COVID… Continue reading
Year Six: Still Learning from Harold by Judith Thompson
What I do know is that I so frequently come across something Harold has written and I pause to digest the sychronicity of how it comes at just the right moment. Sometimes I cry. Not the kind of deep grieving crying of the earlier years (though that does happen too), but more a kind of poignant… Continue reading
- 65 years of photographing
- About this photograph
- Commemorating Harold
- Covid-19
- Current events
- Currently exhibiting
- From Harold's notebook...
- From the annals of photo history
- Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein
- Managing an archive
- News
- Remembering Harold
- Spotlight on my students
- The creative process
- #BlackLivesMatter
- Acik Radyo
- AIPAD
- analog
- archive management
- archiving
- army
- available light
- awards
- black and white
- Blue Note records
- Boardwalk Sheet Music
- books
- botanicals
- cameras
- Carrie Scott
- children
- color
- Coney Island
- Covid 19
- creative control
- darkroom
- DOC NYC
- documentaries
- documentary
- draftee
- Earth Day
- editing
- Edward Steichen
- estate prints
- exhibitions
- Father's Day
- fathers
- flowers
- galleries
- Getty Images
- gratitude
- Helen Gee
- Holidays
- Hurricane Sandy
- In memoriam
- Jacob Deschin
- Jazz Loft
- Judith
- July 4th
- Korean War
- Last Stop Coney Island
- Limelight Gallery
- love
- Lumiere Atlanta
- Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
- managing an archive
- Mariette Pathy Allen
- media
- Memorial Day
- mother's day
- New images
- news
- New York
- night photography
- obituary
- PDN
- photo commentary
- Photo League
- photomontage
- printing
- racial reckoning
- retrospective
- Rodin
- Sid Grossman
- social issues
- street photography
- students
- teaching
- the creative process
- The Cyclone
- the gift of life
- The Griffin Museum of Photography
- The International Center for Photography
- Times Square
- Valentine's Day
- Veteran's Day
- W. Eugene Smith
- Wonder Wheel