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Andreas Feininger: That's Photography

by: Thomas Buchsteiner, Otto Letze
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.

Andreas Feininger (Fotografie Portfolio)

by: Andreas Feininger
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.

Industrial America, 1940-1960: 173 Photographs (Dover Photography Collections)

by: Andreas Feininger
Though it came out in 1981 it's fortunate that this Dover book is still available. The 173 black and white photos reveal what a stunning photographer Andreas Feininger was. The contents are assignments from the Office of War Information in the early Forties and Life Magazine where he was a staff photographer for nineteen years from 1943.

These are photos that work, no wastage, crazy angles, out of focus moody shots but photos that tell a story to everybody. Feininger's technical expertise in photography clearly helped.

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