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Coney Island
1952 · Gelatin silver print
6 × 16 1/2" (15.1 × 41.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Harold Feinstein
Artist
PhotographyPhotography
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None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
7
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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70 Photographers Look at New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957–1958
About
Why this artist matters now
Harold Feinstein was an American photographer known for intimate black-and-white street photography and portraiture in the postwar period. Working primarily in New York, he developed a distinctive approach to candid documentation that emphasized psychological presence and gesture over formal composition. His work captures urban life and the human figure with a directness that reflects the humanistic photography movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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