The exhibition “A Soldier’s View” at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, showcases works by master photographer Harold Feinstein. He is known for his vibrant photographs of flowers, seashells and butterflies, which he took with a digital scanner he used as his camera. Before he captured florals and foliage, he was hunkered down in the barracks, documenting soldiers’ daily lives during the Korean War.
The exhibit is on view through March 16. “City Lights” producer Summer Evans spoke with Tony Casadonte, gallery director at Lumiere and curator, and Judith Thompson, wife of the late photographer and director of the Harold Feinstein Photography Trust.
Before Feinstein was drafted into the Korean War at 21, he had already experienced immense success in photography. At 15, he started taking photographs of people at Coney Island in Brooklyn. His eye for street photography earned him a spot in the prestigious Photo League in New York., and some of his works in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) permanent collection.
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