As part of the Harold Feinstein x Soho House Weekend August 2020 the Harold Feinstein Trust is thrilled to offer an early release of Broadwalk Sheet Music one of Feinstein’s most popular, but long sold out, compositions exclusively to Soho House Members.  This is the first estate authorised print to ever be released by the Harold Feinstein Trust.

Harold Feinstein created this photo montage over seven decades ago. In 2013, he wrote about it for his series About This Photograph. “The first version of [this series] was published in The New York Times in 1952 courtesy of my good friend, Jacob Deschin, the photo writer at the time. Then about a month ago four inquiries about the photo came to me within a week! One came from a dealer, a few others were from individuals and one came from Merve Salemet, who works with Acik Radyo (“open radio”) in Turkey, who would like to use the image for a public service campaign entitled “Tribute to Music”. Just this morning they sent me a mock-up for the poster they have in mind, which prompted this blog.” Broadwalk Sheet Music became the modern public face of Turkey’s only free Radio station and went on to win a number of awards.

In Feinstein’s own words: "I hadn’t initially “seen” the music of this photograph until [journalist] Jacob Deschin put his own name, “Music Score”, on it for his column. Once the true personality of the photograph was revealed, I realized there was another melody waiting to happen here. While the first image — a repetition of lines — evoked a chant or a bass line for a song, I went back to my contact sheets and began to pull out other frames and put them together in a new montage melody! Once I decided which frames to use I put each in the enlarger, made the necessary crops, and penciled in each frame’s spot on a piece of plain paper, so that the entire montage was traced on one template. Then I took out the photographic paper, went back to each negative, created a mask around all but the line I was developing and did this six times to complete the whole picture. Remember! Life before Photoshop was very different!"

The Harold Feinstein Trust is thrilled to offer Broadwalk Sheet Music one of Feinstein’s most popular, but long sold out, compositions as the first estate authorised print to ever be released by the Trust. This will be a limited edition of 15 and sold in partnership with Carrie Scott and David Hill Gallery.