Harold Feinstein began his career in photography in 1946 at the age of fifteen. By the time he was nineteen, Edward Steichen 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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