Talk:Harold Feinstein

Collections

Here are more, for completists:

• The Jewish Museum: one print here
• Brooklyn Museum: two prints found here

-- Hoary (talk) 03:08, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Blue Sky Books

[Mostly for my learned friend Lopifalko]: Blue Sky Books are indeed print on demand. The print quality isn't that great, but then neither is the price. No offence intended to Café Royal, but I can't imagine how Café Royal's booklets should be listed in en:WP but Blue Sky's should not. (I also haven't seen complaints about listing Blurb photobooks where these are relevant.) -- Hoary (talk) 11:19, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

OK, I had not put the effort in to educate myself on the gallery's notability. Thanks. -Lopifalko (talk) 12:15, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Suggested Addition: Infobox

Hello — As representative for the artist’s estate, I can offer a great deal of valuable information that will help expand this page for people looking for more information about Harold Feinstein. Per Wikipedia etiquette, I acknowledge my conflict of interest as a paid editor above, and will use the Talk page to make edit requests for the inclusion of non-biased, sourced-information about this subject. I propose the addition of an Info box for the consideration of editors Hoary and Lopifalko.

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Harold Feinstein
Harold Feinstein, photographed by Judith Thompson (2001) Harold Feinstein, Photographer
Born	(1931-04-17)April 17, 1931 Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York
Died	June 20, 2015(2015-06-20) (aged 84) Merrimack, Massachusetts, U.S.
Known for	Photography
Movement	New York school of photography
Website	haroldfeinstein.com

— Cory at HFPT (talk) 15:25, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello Cory at HFPT and thank you for the contribution and the offer of further help. This is a fine photograph. I will add this Infobox to the article, but without the credit to Judith Thompson as per MOS:CREDITS, which states "Unless relevant to the subject, do not credit the image author or copyright holder in the article. It is assumed that this is not necessary to fulfill attribution requirements of the GFDL or Creative Commons licenses as long as the appropriate credit is on the image description page." I will also alter his name in the caption, as per WP:SURNAME. -Lopifalko (talk) 15:39, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Suggested Additions: Biography

Suggesting an expansion to the biography to include the following sections, for the consideration of editors User:Hoary and User:Lopifalko.

Thank you Cory at HFPT for your well written contribution. -Lopifalko (talk) 17:06, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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• Early life

Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He was the youngest of five children born to Jewish immigrant parents. Feinstein’s mother Sophie Reich immigrated to the United States from Austria and his father Louis immigrated from Russia. He began to practice photography in 1946 at the age of 15, borrowing a Rolleiflex camera from a neighbor.

• Early career

Feinstein joined the Photo League in 1948 at the age of 17, where he received his education in the field and became known as a child prodigy. By 19 he had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Feinstein had his first exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1954 and at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957. He later held solo exhibitions at the George Eastman Museum (1957) and Helen Gee's Limelight Gallery (1958). His photographs were published on the inaugural cover of the literary magazine Evergreen Review and in the pages of leftist journal Liberation.

Critics of the period referred to Feinstein as a master of his art, and his work was influential in the development of the New York school of photography.

• Coney Island

While Feinstein photographed the streets of New York City and elsewhere throughout his career, his favorite subject was his birthplace, Coney Island. He returned many times throughout his life to photograph the boardwalk, amusements and the diverse visitors to the beach destination. There he photographed a broad range of the human experience, from love to lust, joy to despair, comedy to drama. He described it as a photographer's paradise.

The International Center of Photography held an exhibition of Feinstein's Coney Island photographs, A Coney Island of the Heart, in 1990 and the Leica Gallery did so in 2015.

• Teaching

Throughout his career, Feinstein taught photography to others through private workshops held in his studio, as well as at numerous institutions. Many of Feinstein's students went on to become fine art photographers of note including Mary Ellen Mark, Ken Heyman, Mariette Pathy Allen and Peter Angelo Simon.

Additionally, Feinstein taught at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum School of Art, School of Visual Arts, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Maryland Institute College of Art, Windham College, and College of the Holy Cross

• Later career and commercial success

After a lifetime working primarily in humanistic 35 mm film photography, Feinstein shifted late in his career to creating work digitally, using a scanner to photograph images of flowers, seashells, butterflies, foliage and botanicals, beginning in 2001. Cataloguing his life's work, he found that the precision of digital controls, as well as the ability to duplicate images freely and receive instantaneous feedback enabled him to be more improvisational and take more creative risks in his work.

This work garnered Feinstein critical and commercial success. He published seven books of scanography, and his scanographic work was published several times in O, The Oprah Magazine. Feinstein's image of a white rose became a best-selling item at international retailer IKEA.

He was honored with the Computer World Smithsonian Award in 2000 for his breakthrough in digital imaging.

References

— Cory at HFPT

"for the consideration of editors Hoary and Lopifalko." The way the request is worded implies that this request is strictly for editors Hoary and Lopifalko. If that is the case, then there is no need for the template to be activated, you need only ping the editors involved. Use the template when you'd like your request open to the entire community. @Hoary and Lopifalko: The editor Cory at HFPT has requested your review of their request. Note to the COI editor: Please advise if these editors don't respond and you wish to open your request to the entire community. Thank you!  spintendo  22:37, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for pinging me Spintendo, I at least will take a look. -Lopifalko (talk)

I gave it a pass over yesterday with this edit. -Lopifalko (talk) 05:45, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

I will too. However, it may have to wait till Monday. -- Hoary (talk) 06:33, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you!  spintendo  16:12, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

I've made a start, just doing the late-career part. Unless Lopifalko or somebody else beats me to it (and they're very welcome to do so), I'll continue some time next week. In the meantime, though, a question about the Coleman reference. I don't understand it. Is it perhaps an essay by Coleman within Feinstein's book? -- Hoary (talk) 03:36, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

I have more pressing concerns than this article -- so the hell with those concerns, I edited this article instead. (More enjoyable.) I removed the Youtube link, because I have no reason to think that the video is there with the explicit permission of the copyright holder; otherwise, I've pretty much left the material as it was suggested. ¶ And now I think I really should close this browser tab. -- Hoary (talk) 06:01, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

PS I skipped the "infobox", because I think that for most kinds of biographee infoboxes only serve to dumb down the article. -- Hoary (talk) 06:03, 13 July 2018 (UTC)