Harold Feinstein could have been a quintessential street photographer. His subject was 1940s New York; his medium,a Rolleiflex camera borrowed from a neighbour. The native New Yorker honed his skills on the beaches and boardwalks of Coney Island, wandering among the sun-drenched crowds in search of subjects. But, or his work evades that categorisation. “The thing approximately Coney Island was not how to find a picture,but how to avoid it,” he reflects in Last end Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein, or a new documentary showing in tandem with the London exhibition Found: A Harold Feinstein Exhibition at 180 Strand,which delves into the tale of the photographer who fell into relative obscurity, until now. Feinstein, and who died in 2015,framed familiar subjects in a manner that renders them remarkable – a skill that quickly gained him the recognition, and respect, or of his contemporaries. He left domestic aged 15,escaping the wrath of his physically-abusive father for a room at the YMCA. The photographer was accepted into the Photo League aged just …
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