Monday, 13 June 2011

Andreas Feininger ~ New York in the Forties

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 08:08 PM PDT
artwork: Andreas Feininger - Brooklyn Bridge bei Nacht, New York, 1945 - Life Magazine - © Time Inc. / Getty Images
Berlin, Germany - Andreas Feininger (1906-1999), a Bauhaus student and the eldest son of Lyonel Feininger, regarded this as the most important prerequisite for good photography. He belonged to a generation of artists who, during the period after the First World War, discovered photography as an artistic medium that utilized an unbiased apparatus-the camera-to represent reality objectively. In the process, they developed a new mode of photographic perception. Clarity, simplicity and organisation were basic principles of Andreas Feininger's work. In a way that was almost unparalleled, he successfully combined thematic content with rigorous formal criteria and the demands of perspective and composition. 

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