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Harold Feinstein began
his career in photography in 1946 at the age of fifteen. By the
time he was nineteen, Edward
Stieichen had purchased his work for the permanent collection of
the Museum of Modern Art and exhibited it frequently during his tenure
there. In his early career, Feinstein was best known for his black
and white documentary style work, and particularly his extensive
Coney Island portfolio, which has been shown often throughout his
life in galleries, museums and journals. Renowned photography critic
and historian A.D. Colman has said of this work: “Here is New
York small-camera photography at it’s best – humanistic,
intimate, engaged, almost intrusive.” He went on to call Feinstein “a
true photographer’s photographer.”
In early 2000, Feinstein began to master digital technology as an
artistic medium, resulting in six color books published by Bulfinch
press. The celebrated One Hundred Flowers (2000) is now in it’s
third printing. His trend-setting in the arena of digital photography
earned him the Smithsonian Institute’s Computerworld Smithsonian
Award, in 2000.
Feinstein’s photographs have been exhibited in and are represented
in the permanent collections of major museums including the Museum
of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the George
Eastman House, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Musee d'Art Moderne,
the Museum for the City of New York and the Smithsonian National
Museum of American History. His portfolios, photo essays, and articles
have been published in major periodicals around the world including,
LIFE, Aperture, Audubon, Connoisseur, L'Illustriazione, and Popular
Photography.
W. Eugene Smith, with whom Feinstein collaborated closely in his
early years, said of his work: “He is one of the very few photographers
I have known or have been influenced by with the ability to reveal
the familiar to me as beautifully new, in a strong and honest way.”
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