Andreas Feininger

 

New 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.

PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION IN PHOTOGRAPHY by Andreas Feininger Hardcover from American Photographic Book Pub. Co ISBN: 0817405526

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.

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.

[no image] The Complete Photographer by Andreas Feininger Paperback from Prentice Hall Trade ISBN: 0131622552

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.

Photographic Seeing by Andreas Feininger Hardcover from Prentice-hall, Inc.

The Creative Photographer by Andreas Feininger Hardcover from Prentice Hall

Light and Lighting in Photography by Andreas Feininger Hardcover from Amphoto Books ISBN: 0817405852

Trees by Andreas Feininger Paperback from Rizzoli Media Published: 1991- ISBN: 0847813258

 

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