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What’s the July 4th week-end without Coney Island? Will apple pie be the next to go? by Judith Thompson

This ABC Nightline piece celebrating Coney Island and the photography of Harold Feinsted aired 25 years ago today. There were dire predictions about the future then…as there are now. Yet the same indomitable resilience remains!
Different kinds of war: Reflections on Memorial Day 2020 by Judith Thompson

As I looked through Harold’s Draftee series for some appropriate photographs to share on this 2020 Memorial Day observance, the irony of the one above did not escape me. This GI is getting inoculated in both arms as a way to prepare for the war overseas. Harold went off to Korea in 1952. Approximately 35,000… Continue reading
Roses and prayers for Therese on Mother’s Day, 2020 by Judith Thompson

“We are born of love; love is our Mother. ” Rumi Today we celebrate mothers. And yet it’s a different Mother’s Day than any of us have every known. In too many cases the joyful gatherings that we may have been used to on this special days are being replaced by zoom calls. In too… Continue reading
Earth Day at 50: A Hush Across the Land by Judith Thompson

The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. Rumi Could any of us have imagined that the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day would arrive like this? The global “pause button” has been pushed. The Earth is breathing? Can you hear her? The Pandemic has created multiple realities for… Continue reading
A Love Letter to New York: We Stand With You! by Judith Thompson

To all New Yorkers: Please accept this visual love letter from one who always saw New York through the eyes of love.
- 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
- Spotlight on my students
- The creative process
- #BlackLivesMatter
- Acik Radyo
- AIPAD
- analog
- archive management
- archiving
- 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
- 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 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
What’s the July 4th week-end without Coney Island? Will apple pie be the next to go? by Judith Thompson

This ABC Nightline piece celebrating Coney Island and the photography of Harold Feinsted aired 25 years ago today. There were dire predictions about the future then…as there are now. Yet the same indomitable resilience remains!
Different kinds of war: Reflections on Memorial Day 2020 by Judith Thompson

As I looked through Harold’s Draftee series for some appropriate photographs to share on this 2020 Memorial Day observance, the irony of the one above did not escape me. This GI is getting inoculated in both arms as a way to prepare for the war overseas. Harold went off to Korea in 1952. Approximately 35,000… Continue reading
Roses and prayers for Therese on Mother’s Day, 2020 by Judith Thompson

“We are born of love; love is our Mother. ” Rumi Today we celebrate mothers. And yet it’s a different Mother’s Day than any of us have every known. In too many cases the joyful gatherings that we may have been used to on this special days are being replaced by zoom calls. In too… Continue reading
Earth Day at 50: A Hush Across the Land by Judith Thompson

The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. Rumi Could any of us have imagined that the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day would arrive like this? The global “pause button” has been pushed. The Earth is breathing? Can you hear her? The Pandemic has created multiple realities for… Continue reading
A Love Letter to New York: We Stand With You! by Judith Thompson

To all New Yorkers: Please accept this visual love letter from one who always saw New York through the eyes of love.
- 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
- Spotlight on my students
- The creative process
- #BlackLivesMatter
- Acik Radyo
- AIPAD
- analog
- archive management
- archiving
- 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
- 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 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