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Feb 14th, 2013

A Soldier’s Valentine: Bidding Farewell at Camp Kilmer, 1952 by Harold Feinstein

While Valentine’s Day seems to be just another opportunity for card companies to cash in on mass produced emotions, I was surprised to find out that the original St. Valetine (Valentinus) was persecuted and killed under the Roman Emperor Claudius II for the heinous crime of performing clandestine weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to… Continue reading

Feb 13th, 2013 6 comments

Thank you Dorothy Norman: Encouragement and the Creative Process by Harold Feinstein

When I was a boy of only 18, I had pretty much found my photographic voice. I was fortunate to have the support of The Photo League, Jacob Deschin at the New York Times, and Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art. I was essentially self-taught, though I did take a class with Sid… Continue reading

Feb 4th, 2013 3 comments

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

Jan 15th, 2013

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

Jan 8th, 2013 7 comments

2012 ends with on a high note! Reflections on the Aperture Book Party by Harold Feinstein

First of all – Happy New Year to all my friends, family and fans out there! If 2013 is anything like the year that just passed, then I simply won’t have enough fingers, toes or hairs on my head to count all my blessings. As I look back on 2012 I give thanks for so… Continue reading

Dec 14th, 2012 2 comments

Getting ready for the benefit, book party and reunion at Aperture December 17th! You’re invited! by Harold Feinstein

I love having book parties! But it’s especially great to head home to New York and the venerable photo foundation, Aperture. I may be 81 now, but good things seem to circle around in one’s life. I was just a young man in my 20’s when Minor White published a photo of mine in one… Continue reading

Nov 5th, 2012 16 comments

Coney Island and Hurricane Sandy: Down but never out! by Harold Feinstein

First of all, my heart goes out to the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy. Watching the news from the warmth of my Massachusetts home makes me grateful to have been spared the worst and heart-broken for those who weren’t. I am a New Yorker by birth and by heart, and lived there most… Continue reading

Nov 5th, 2012

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

    February 14th, 2013

    A Soldier’s Valentine: Bidding Farewell at Camp Kilmer, 1952 by Harold Feinstein

    While Valentine’s Day seems to be just another opportunity for card companies to cash in on mass produced emotions, I was surprised to find out that the original St. Valetine (Valentinus) was persecuted and killed under the Roman Emperor Claudius II for the heinous crime of performing clandestine weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to… Continue reading

    February 13th, 2013
    6 comments

    Thank you Dorothy Norman: Encouragement and the Creative Process by Harold Feinstein

    When I was a boy of only 18, I had pretty much found my photographic voice. I was fortunate to have the support of The Photo League, Jacob Deschin at the New York Times, and Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art. I was essentially self-taught, though I did take a class with Sid… Continue reading

    February 4th, 2013
    3 comments

    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

    January 15th, 2013

    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

    January 8th, 2013
    7 comments

    2012 ends with on a high note! Reflections on the Aperture Book Party by Harold Feinstein

    First of all – Happy New Year to all my friends, family and fans out there! If 2013 is anything like the year that just passed, then I simply won’t have enough fingers, toes or hairs on my head to count all my blessings. As I look back on 2012 I give thanks for so… Continue reading

    December 14th, 2012
    2 comments

    Getting ready for the benefit, book party and reunion at Aperture December 17th! You’re invited! by Harold Feinstein

    I love having book parties! But it’s especially great to head home to New York and the venerable photo foundation, Aperture. I may be 81 now, but good things seem to circle around in one’s life. I was just a young man in my 20’s when Minor White published a photo of mine in one… Continue reading

    November 5th, 2012
    16 comments

    Coney Island and Hurricane Sandy: Down but never out! by Harold Feinstein

    First of all, my heart goes out to the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy. Watching the news from the warmth of my Massachusetts home makes me grateful to have been spared the worst and heart-broken for those who weren’t. I am a New Yorker by birth and by heart, and lived there most… Continue reading

    November 5th, 2012

    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

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