Milton Feinberg (American 1919-2008)

Jaqueline Kennedy at Boston Benefit Ball, c. 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on double-weight paper

PIX credit stamp on verso

Print size: 9 7/8 x 6 ½ nches

Mat size: 14 x 11 inches (8-ply mat)

Condition: Overall Very Good; slight crackling in upper left quadrant; paperclip indentation in left edge; some slight edge chipping; ALL visible only in raking light and under close inspection

MF-JFK-02

Retail: $1200

BIO:

(Quincy) Milton I. Feinberg: (1919-2008) (TIME/LIFE):

2008: The Patriot Ledgeer: June 9: Obituary (Obituary also in the Boston Globe):

 

Quincy Milton I. Feinberg, age 89, of Quincy died Friday, May 30, 2008 at the Brigham & Womens Hospital in Boston.

 

He was born in Boston, raised and educated in Boston schools and was a graduate of Roxbury Latin and also Northeastern University. Mr. Feinberg served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a First Lieutenant. He has lived in Quincy for four years, previously in Brighton for fifty-three years.

 

Mr. Feinberg was a self-employed photographer. He combined his love of photography and music by photographing The Boston Symphony Orchestra for many years. His photos were included in books and articles about the Symphony. He wrote a book Techniques of Photojournalism incorporating many new ideas of using available light in photography.

 

He enjoyed sailing and cruising in his boat, the Lady Barbara, and spent every summer in Hull. He was a founding member of the Tender Tappers, -a senior tap group at Dance Forever where he performed in many concerts for the past 22 years, until the age of 88.

 

He volunteered at the Museum of Science in the Eye-Openers Program where he had over seven thousand hours of volunteer service. He developed a program a on the Properties of Water based on Bubbles, earning himself the nickname of Dr. Bubbles. He took his program to many elementary schools and senior centers in the area. -- Published in The Patriot Ledger on June 9, 2008

 

Found Publications:

1967: Time - Volume 89, Issues 1-8 - Page 44

1969: Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, 1969, Tanglewood, Summer"

1970: 336 The Journal of Communication, Vol. 20, September 1970

1970: Boston Symphony Orchestra - Volume 89 - Page 578

1971: LIFE: Nov 19, p. 13

1971: Infinity - Volume 20

1974: Gentlemen, More Dolce, Please!: (Second Movement) An Irreverent Memoir of Thirty-five Years in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, by Harry Ellis Dickson, p. 29

1976: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard - Page 426

1976: Theatre Design and Technology - Volumes 12-14 - Page 15

1977: Artist's & Photographer's Market - Page 575

1979: Community Of Sound: Boston Symphony And Its World Of Players by Snyder, Louis

1979: Newsweek - Page iv

1980: Bibliographic Guide to Music - Page 699

1981: International Music Guide - Page 145

1983: Music, Books on Music, and Sound Recordings - Volume 5 - Page 196

1983: Turandot, Dec 12, p. 91

1986: The World and its people, by Alvis T. Harthern, p. 152

1991: On the Horizon, Level 9 - Page 384

1996: New York Magazine, Aug 5, p. 100

2001: International Record Review - Volume 2 - Page 516

2002: The World Book Encyclopedia - Volume 2 - Page 501

2005: Saxophone Journal, Jan/Feb

2008: The Boston Globe (Obituary): June 10

2012: Charles Munch - Page 164

2015: NPR: Remembering Vic Firth, An Orchestral — And Entrepreneurial — Legend, July 28 (credited courtesy of the Boston Symphony)

2016: The New York Times: Jules Eskin, Cellist with Boston Symphone Orchestra Dies, Nov 19

2017: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea, fig 2edited by Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru

 

Monographs:

1970: Techniques of Photojournalism

 

Collections:

Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.)

PIX Publishing Agency:

We are now representing a large collection of prints from P.I.X. (PIX) Publishing Inc., the photography agency founded in New York City in November 1935 by German photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt & George Karger and photography agents Leon Daniel (chief of Associated Press in Berlin from 1927-1935) & Celia Krutschuk, all of whom fled Nazi Germany and found their new homes in NYC.

 

In 1973, the PIX Publishing agency archive was donated to an east-coast library where it has since been housed. As of this year, the collection is in private hands.

 

PIX represented such photographers as Cecil Beaton, Ferenc Berko, Edouard Boubat, Josef Breitenbach, Robert Capa, Joe Clark, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ed Feingersh, Laura Gilpin, John Gutmann, Nina Leen, Don McCullin, Marion Post-Wolcott, Willy Ronis, Fred Stein, Ezra Stoller, Julian Wasser, Garry Winogrand, George Zimbel and many more.

 

PIX also worked with the prestigious agencies Camera Press, Dalmas, Gamma, and Holmes-Lebel, among others. PIX also represented Gökşin Sipahioğlu and Gilles Caron, the founders of world-renowned SIPA Press.

 

The Verso:

Each print also bears the stamp of the institution that owned from 1973 to 2017. Out of respect for the institution, we are only publicly displaying the pertinent credit and title information on the verso. Upon request by serious parties, we are happy to send a full scan of the verso via eBay messages.

 

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