Harold Feinstein – Coney Island, is the first exhibition since his recent passing. Harold Feinstein (April 17, 1931-June 20, 2015) was born in Coney Island in 1931 and began photographing in 1946 when he was 15. By the time he was 19, Edward Steichen had purchased his work for the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art making him the youngest person to be so honored. He was also the youngest member of the famed Photo League, a designer for Blue Note records and one of the original inhabitants of New York’s legendary ‘Jazz Loft’. He began teaching before he was 30 and his legendary workshops have inspired hundreds of aspiring photographers. When he died recently (June 2015) the New York Times declared him ‘one of the most accomplished recorders of the American experience.’ He is best known for his Coney Island work, which spans six decades and intimately portrays the iconic American playground as a place of on-going exuberance and vitality
