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York in the Forties
by Andreas Feininger
Paperback from Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486235858
Former Life photographer records the blizzard of '47,
the Louis-Walcott fight at Madison Square Garden, the "dimouts" of WW II,
the burned-out hulk of the Normandie, etc. 162 photographs. Introduction
and captions. |
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Andreas
Feininger: That's Photography (Hatje Cantz)
by Thomas Buchsteiner, Otto Letze
Hardcover from Hatje Cantz Publishers
Media Published: 2004-
ISBN: 3775714294
Description: "The camera is superior to the eye, and the photograph
can, and ideally should, portray the world more graphic than reality itself."
--Andreas Feininger The basic principles underlying the photographic art
of Andreas Feininger are clarity, simplicity, and organization. The eldest
son of painter Lyonel Feininger, he was born in Paris in 1906. Upon completion
of training as a cabinet-maker at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the early 20s,
he went on to study architecture in the state schools of Weimar and Zerbst.
It was while working as an architectural photographer in Stockholm that
he developed the sweeping vistas and fine balance for which his pictures
were famous. Emigrating to New York following the outbreak of World War
II, Feininger was hired as a photo-editor by Life magazine. In his own
work, he captured images of urban canyons, skyscrapers, bridges, and elevated
railways in concentrated, atmospheric photographs that are regarded as
classical works today. He applied the same enthusiasm to nature studies:
his detail images of insects, flowers, shells, wood, and stones imbue these
forms with a sculptural character. That's Photography presents the work
of this classic photographer, who died in 1999. |
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Andreas
Feininger: A Photographer's Life, 1906-1999
Hardcover from Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 3775727043
Andreas Feininger (1906-) was born into the nascent photo-print culture
of the early twentieth century, and joined a generation of modernist photographers
emerging between the wars, who pioneered and established the dramatic visual
vocabulary of cityscapes in twentieth-century photography. Feininger also
extended the realm of still-life photography, making exquisitely detailed
photographs of insects, flowers and shells, eliciting sculptural character
from natural forms. Born in Paris and raised in Germany, Feininger was
the eldest son of artist Lyonel Feininger. Beginning with his childhood,
the book follows the young Feininger through his period at the Bauhaus
in Weimar to his time as an émigré in Paris and Stockholm
to his later years in the United States, where he built his formidable
career as a photojournalist and photographer, working as a photo editor
for Life magazine and becoming famed for his crisp and energetic
photographs of the streets and buildings of Manhattan. Now, for the first
time, Thomas Buchsteiner's biography tells the story of the artist behind
and beyond the camera. |
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Andreas
Feininger (Fotografie Portfolio)
Paperback from Stern
ISBN: 3570196895
Born in France, the son of renowned artist Lyonel Feininger, Andreas
Feininger was educated as an architect in Germany before he became a photographer.
After working in Sweden, he came to the United States and in 1943, became
a staff photographer at LIFE magazine, where he spent the next twenty years.
He is best known for iconographic images of his adopted land, with a focus
on powerful cityscapes, which are imbued with the strict sense of form
and proportion developed during his architectural studies. Indeed, the
city was to be the focus of much of his work: "I see the city as a living
organism, dynamic, sometimes violent." The scale and dynamism of Feininger's
work captured the vast scope and raw majesty of an energetic and evolving
land. His precise and unorthodox vision magnified the grandeur in the everyday
and the mundane. An accomplished technician and acclaimed writer, Feininger
is also widely respected for his photographic textbooks. |
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Trees
by Andreas Feininger
Paperback from Rizzoli
Media Published: 1991-
ISBN: 0847813258 |
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