[Leica] Mel Finkelstein: Playing A Hunch

[ISILVERMN at aol.com (ISILVERMN@aol.com)]

My wife's cousin, Mel Finkelstein,was a gifted press photographer for the  
New York Daily News and later Photography Editor at the New York Post.  Over 
a 
40-year career, his portfolio ran the gamut from street and crime  
photography 
to celebrity portraiture, and just about anything in between. For  his 
photograph of the Chinese Delegation at the United Nations for the first  
time, he 
was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
 
Starting last Sunday and continuing through October 19th, a retrospective  
of 
his work, "Mel Finkelstein: Playing a Hunch" is being exhibited at the  
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, Florida, near St.  
Petersburg.   
 
The title comes from a quote of his: "The right spot at the right  time.  
That's what this business is all about.  Sometimes you stay in  one spot and 
other times you play hunches and you would cruise."
 
The following article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times last  weekend:
 
_http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article768397.ece_ 
(http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article768397.ece) 
 
The museum website is here:
 
_http://www.spcollege.edu/central/museum/exhibitions.htm_ 
(http://www.spcollege.edu/central/museum/exhibitions.htm) 
 
If anyone is in the Tampa-St. Pete area over the next few months, you might  
want to pay a visit.
 
Best regards,
 
Ira Silverman
Irvine, CA




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