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Paris preview #2: Coney Island Quietude by Judith Thompson

Included among the prints being exhibited at the up-coming show, Graciously Yours (Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, May 24-August 31) are a number of Coney Island photographs that speak to a quiet side of the famed amusement park away from the screams on the Cyclone or the barkers on the boardwalk. Harold’s own thoughts about these photographs… Continue reading
Paris preview #1: The sculptural body by Judith Thompson

Hands, arms, legs, backs, torsos! In his press release describing the up-coming show Graciously Yours, (Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, May 24-August 31), Thierry Bigaignon, remarks on the “omnipresence of bodies” as a key feature of the 21 prints that will be exhibited. Indeed, Harold’s attraction to the human form and his desire to capture the grace… Continue reading
Not yet sprung! Waiting for the Big Bang! by Judith Thompson

Do I have your attention? Spring? Seduction by color, shape, sound, fragrance? Crocuses? Tulips? Dogwood? The riotous scream of YELLOW shooting from the forsythia, followed by the reds, oranges, and pinks of tulips? Whatever happened to “in like a lion and out like a lamb?” We got the lion coming and going! So I say: “Let’s… Continue reading
Preparing for a curator’s visit: Two days with Francois Cheval, Audrey Hoareau and Thierry Bigaignon by Judith Thompson

When my Paris dealer, Thierry Bigaignon, told me that he would be bringing curators Francois Cheval and Audrey Hoareau for a two day visit to the studio in January, I was ecstatic! Francois had served as director of the Musée Nicéphore-Niépce for 20 years, and recently launched The Red Eye, together with Audrey Hoareau who had… Continue reading
Happy New Year! Looking back on 2017 and forward to 2018 by Judith Thompson

As the New Year unfolds, we look back on 2017, which was a year of exciting developments for the Harold Feinstein Photography studio. Beautifully mounted exhibitions in Paris and Istanbul accompanied by significant media attention, a public preview of clips from the up-coming documentary at Photo London, the launch of our YouTube channel with clips… Continue reading
W. Eugene Smith, Ed Thompson and the battle for creative control: A play in multiple acts by Judith Thompson

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.” William Shakespeare, from “As you Like It” Several months ago I received a few emails from friends pointing me to a highly entertaining blogpost written by… Continue reading
The Cook, the photographer and the poison ivy: Story of a photo shoot by Judith Thompson

While it seems true that every photograph can tell a story either through the explicit hand of the photographer or through the viewer’s imagination, it’s not often that we hear directly from both the photographer and the subject about the context or circumstances of that moment. Last year I published a post called Ripple Effects:… 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
- 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
Paris preview #2: Coney Island Quietude by Judith Thompson

Included among the prints being exhibited at the up-coming show, Graciously Yours (Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, May 24-August 31) are a number of Coney Island photographs that speak to a quiet side of the famed amusement park away from the screams on the Cyclone or the barkers on the boardwalk. Harold’s own thoughts about these photographs… Continue reading
Paris preview #1: The sculptural body by Judith Thompson

Hands, arms, legs, backs, torsos! In his press release describing the up-coming show Graciously Yours, (Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, May 24-August 31), Thierry Bigaignon, remarks on the “omnipresence of bodies” as a key feature of the 21 prints that will be exhibited. Indeed, Harold’s attraction to the human form and his desire to capture the grace… Continue reading
Not yet sprung! Waiting for the Big Bang! by Judith Thompson

Do I have your attention? Spring? Seduction by color, shape, sound, fragrance? Crocuses? Tulips? Dogwood? The riotous scream of YELLOW shooting from the forsythia, followed by the reds, oranges, and pinks of tulips? Whatever happened to “in like a lion and out like a lamb?” We got the lion coming and going! So I say: “Let’s… Continue reading
Preparing for a curator’s visit: Two days with Francois Cheval, Audrey Hoareau and Thierry Bigaignon by Judith Thompson

When my Paris dealer, Thierry Bigaignon, told me that he would be bringing curators Francois Cheval and Audrey Hoareau for a two day visit to the studio in January, I was ecstatic! Francois had served as director of the Musée Nicéphore-Niépce for 20 years, and recently launched The Red Eye, together with Audrey Hoareau who had… Continue reading
Happy New Year! Looking back on 2017 and forward to 2018 by Judith Thompson

As the New Year unfolds, we look back on 2017, which was a year of exciting developments for the Harold Feinstein Photography studio. Beautifully mounted exhibitions in Paris and Istanbul accompanied by significant media attention, a public preview of clips from the up-coming documentary at Photo London, the launch of our YouTube channel with clips… Continue reading
W. Eugene Smith, Ed Thompson and the battle for creative control: A play in multiple acts by Judith Thompson

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.” William Shakespeare, from “As you Like It” Several months ago I received a few emails from friends pointing me to a highly entertaining blogpost written by… Continue reading
The Cook, the photographer and the poison ivy: Story of a photo shoot by Judith Thompson

While it seems true that every photograph can tell a story either through the explicit hand of the photographer or through the viewer’s imagination, it’s not often that we hear directly from both the photographer and the subject about the context or circumstances of that moment. Last year I published a post called Ripple Effects:… 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
- 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