About the Artist
Barry Feinstein—given first name Bartram, and last name to rhyme with wine—was born in Philadelphia on February 4, 1931. He was the only child of David and Rose Feinstein, a building manager and a housewife. Feinstein grew up in the skinny waist of Philly, squeezed between the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, just north of Center City. A strong, athletic boy, he was a running back on his high school varsity football team, and won a scholarship to the University of Miami. Instead of becoming a star in Florida, though, he left school as the United States entered the Korean War, serving in the Coast Guard as a bosun’s mate. Feinstein left the seas to fetch up in Atlantic City, where an uncle in the casino business set him up to take photographs of horse and motocross races at the local racetrack—operated by Grace Kelly’s father—and for the annual Miss America Pageant. From horses, motorcycles, and beautiful girls came the career of one of the 20th century’s most culturally, and artistically, significant photographers.
