Andreas Feininger

El trains, South Side slums, Lake Shore Drive, stockyards. 60 pictures from 1941, 5 from 1948.

Feininger's Chicago, 1941

Principles of Composition in Photography

Photographic Seeing

Light and Lighting in Photography

Feininger on Photography

Successful Color Photography

The Sketchbook of a Photographer

Roots of Art

Galerie (Stuttgart)

The basic principles underlying the photographic art of Andreas Feininger, born in 1906 in Paris, the eldest son of painter Lyonel Feininger, are clarity, simplicity, and organization. Upon completion of training as a cabinet-maker at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the early twenties, he went on to study architecture at the Bauhaus in the state schools of architecture in Weimar and Zerbst. After working as an architectural photographer in Stockholm, he emigrated 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. The book presents the work of this prominent photographer, who died in 1999. Exhibition schedule: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart May 7 - August 1, 2004

Experimental Work

John Von Hartz

Photographs aspects of New York life in the forties from the old Metropolitan Opera House to the Lower East Side shops and the boardwalk on Coney Island

New York in the Forties

Andreas Feininger

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