Mike over at The Online Photographer posted about this Kickstarter project, and I’m following suit. Can any of my readers help out? Here’s Harold Feinstein’s web page over at Panopticon. Mike is right, the photos are too small, but they work well in the design of the page.

Once again, I’ve learned of another photographer I’d never heard of before reading about him/her on TOP: Thankfully, this one is still alive, and I can at least pass the word and the hat for him.

Harold’s work is best described by Mike Johnston:

“I think maybe he was too cheerful to be really popular with the art establishment—too much affection for people; not enough surly alienation, listless ennui, and truculent anomie.”

There definitely is an affection for his human subjects evident in his Coney Island images. There is a sense of genteel and benevolent voyeurism in the compositions and perspectives.

Harold’s Military Draftees series leave me with a sense of deja vu, for my own time as an inductee into the US Navy, the emotionally flat bewilderment, coupled with a sense of immediate obedience demanded from raw recruits. They sequence well, from naked men lined up for medical exams to men draped with the arms of their buddies, or playing musical instruments.

Go see his photographs, and then go contribute to fund his first photobook.

Edited: Sorry, Mike, I misspelled your name–again!