#feininger

Watercolour and pen and India ink on laid paper., 15,5 × 24,3 cm

Andreas Feininger for Life Magazine. 1936

the red shoes, michael powell 1948

Carnival in Arcueil, 1911

Photographs of NYC by Andreas Feininger 📸 As a staff photographer for the popular weekly American news magazine Life from 1943 to 1962, during the years of its greatest cultural influence, Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) created photographic essays that often reached more than ten million people a week. The son of the #painter Lyonel Feininger, Andreas received his arts education at the Bauhaus (1925-1927). Upon moving to New York City in 1939, he specialized in architectural #photography. In both his affinity for the subject and his #modernist aesthetics, Feininger became the leading photographer of the #Manhattan #skyline in the postwar years, communicating the city’s density and intensity, day and night, in both stark and atmospheric black-and-white images. #Feininger employed a special telephoto lens that allowed him to shoot from a distance of three to seven miles. He explained in a 1983 BBC interview: “I found that the farther away you go, the more monumental the buildings look.... Without this kind of scale, I feel you lose part of what’s essential and only the telephoto lens can bring it out, because it doesn’t distort.” Feininger collected his photographs in a series of books, both on New York City and on the art and techniques of photography, including The Face of New York. (at Empire State Building) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce86ffDud4E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Lyonel Feininger

Formentanz - T. Lux Feininger

Sin título (Cristales rotos), 1927.