From April 13 to June 30, 2019, Fondazione Carispezia is hosting the exhibition Barry Feinstein. A Retrospective.
Fondazione Carispezia is hosting in its exhibition spaces in La Spezia, from April 13 to June 30, the exhibition Barry Feinstein. A Retrospective, an exhibition that traces for the first time in Italy the long career of American photographer Barry Feinstein, who was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and died in Woodstock in 2011, and who over the course of sixty years portrayed the big names of 1950s Hollywood and the most iconic rock and pop musicians of the 1960s and 1970s. The 45 black-and-white and color shots on display are dedicated to the main protagonists of American film and music culture of those years: from Marlene Dietrich to Bob Dylan, from Janis Joplin to Steve McQueen, from Aretha Franklin to George Harrison, from Marlon Brando to Eric Clapton.
The photographs in the exhibition, curated by ONO contemporary art and The J. Blatt Agency LLC, New York, were selected with the help of Judith Jamison, Feinstein’s widow and executor of the Barry Feinstein Estate. All the shots, some of which were restored for this exhibition, were printed by Pete Mauney, Feinstein’s longtime collaborator.
Barry Feinstein came to the photographic arts by first becoming an assistant to Ike Vern, LIFE photographer, and later, from 1955 to 1957, working as a camera assistant for Louis Kellman Productions. From 1957 to 1960 he turned to filmmaking: he was hired as a production intern by Columbia Pictures and worked on major sets such as John Ford ’s The Last Hurrah with Spencer Tracy, Operation Mad Ball with Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs, and Pal Joey with Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, and Kim Novak. He later switched to European productions for Morningside Productions. By 1960 he returned to the United States where he began a career as a freelance photographer, portraying such personalities as Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, U.S. presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and such musicians as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, B.B King, Aretha Franklin, and Barbra Streisand. During this period he began a constant reportage activity and was called by Cornell Capa, Robert’s brother, to work with the famous Magnum Photos agency.
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Pictured: Barry Feinstein, Janis Joplin, Hollywood (1970). Photograph for the cover of the album Pearl, Barry Feinstein Photography Inc. 2019. All rights reserved
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