Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger: A Photographer's Life, 1906-1999
Publisher's Description
Andreas Feininger (1906–1999) 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.
ISBN: 3775727043
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Hardcover : 192 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 6.9 x 9.1 x 0.9 inches
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Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Hardcover : 192 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 6.9 x 9.1 x 0.9 inches