When he saw the photos of all the lovely young art patrons who attended this week’s opening of a retrospective of his work in Moscow, photographer Harold Feinstein wished he’d been there. “Let me tell you, I wish I was,” said Feinstein, who lives on the North Shore with his wife, Judith Thompson. “But I get as much pleasure just looking at the pictures [of the opening].” The six-decade retrospective exhibit at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow includes 100 of the photographer’s affecting black-and-white images. But in his 80s, Feinstein doesn’t get around as well as he used to, so he had to stay put. (He did make an appearance via Skype.) “I still have it in my mind that I’m going to get there,” he told us Wednesday. “But my wife won’t let me, and she owns me.” The celebrated photographer has been taking pictures since he was 15. He had his first exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in the 1950s. The Moscow gallery became acquainted with Feinstein’s work last year when one of his images was the centerpiece for Acik Radyo’s award-winning “Music for the People” ad campaign, and the image went viral. If you’re wondering if Feinstein’s still working, the answer is yes. “I’m doing photography in the studio,” he said. “I just can’t get around to do any more street work.”
North Shore photographer has work celebrated in Moscow
