Andreas Feininger
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Andreas Feininger (27 December 1906 - 18 February 1999) was an American photographer of German heritage born in Paris, the son of the painter Lyonel Feininger.
Feininger grew up and was educated as an architect in Germany where his father painted and taught at Bauhaus. After working with Le Corbusier in Paris, Feininger started photographing architecture. In 1936, he gave up architecture, moved to Sweden, and focused on photography. In advance of WW II, Feininger moved to New York City in 1939.
Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York and served as a staff photographer of Life magazine. Science and nature, as seen in bones, shells, plants, and minerals, was a frequent subject of Feininger's, but rarely did he photograph people or make portraits. Feininger wrote comprehensive manuals about photography, of which one of the best known is The Complete Photographer. In the introduction to one of Feininger's books of photographs, Ralph Hattersley described him as "one of the great architects who helped create photography as we know it today." In 1966 the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) awarded Feininger their highest distinction, the Rober Leavitt Award. In 1991, the International Center of Photography awarded Feininger the Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award.
Today, Feininger's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
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 Cover of a Feininger book. |