Born 1931, Coney Island, New York. Died 2015.
Lived in Merrimack, New Hampshire

Feinstein began photographing at the age of fifteen and by the time he was nineteen, Edward Steichen had purchased his work for the Museum of Modern Art's collection. Feinstein had his first exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1954 and his first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957. Known for his early documentary photographs and pictures of Coney Island, he also photographed architecture for Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn in the 1950s. He has had a robust post-Photo League career. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Life, Aperture, Audubon, Camera Arts, and Connoisseur. He has taught workshops since 1956. Additionally he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1959–60); School of Visual Arts (1968); the University of Massachusetts (1972–73); and Maryland Institute of Art (1981). In 1990 he had an exhibition, A Coney Island of the Heart: Five Decades of Photographs, at the International Center of Photography in New York. In 2000 he won the Smithsonian Institute's Computerworld Smithsonian Award for his innovative forays into digital photography. He has published a number of books of color photography, including a series of popular volumes of nature photography: One Hundred Flowers (2000), Foliage (2001), The Infinite Rose (2004), The Infinite Tulip (2004), One Hundred Seashells (2005), Orchidelirium (2007), One Hundred Butterflies (2009). A monograph of his black-and-white photography, Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective was published in 2012.