{"id":3876299,"date":"2013-03-12T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.time.com\/?p=33471"},"modified":"2020-11-03T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:49:25","slug":"andreas-feininger-photographer-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/people\/andreas-feininger-photographer-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Spotlight: Andreas Feininger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one had to choose a single photographer whose work would serve as a visual biography of New York City in its postwar Golden Age when Gotham became, in a sense, the capital of the world, the name Andreas Feininger would have to be in the mix. Paris-born, raised in Germany and, for a time, a cabinet-maker and architect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bauhauskooperation.com\/the-bauhaus\/people\/students\/andreas-feininger\/\">trained in the Bauhaus<\/a>, Feininger&#8217;s pictures of New York in the 1940s and &#8217;50s helped define, for all time, not merely how a great 20th century city looked, but how it imagined itself and its place in the world. With its traffic-jammed streets, gritty waterfronts, iconic bridges and inimitable skyline, the city assumed the character of a vast, vibrant landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Individual New Yorkers, meanwhile, were often an afterthought: it was form, pattern and, perhaps above all else, scale that Feininger sought. Human beings might have built this thrilling, sprawling, purposeful urban panorama, but their presence in Feininger&#8217;s pictures was not necessary; their handiwork would suffice. (In fact, in his single most famous portrait of a person, his 1955 photo of the young photographer Dennis Stock, Feininger obscures or, more accurately, replaces the human face with the clean, mechanistic contours of a camera.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no one who worked on staff for LIFE as Feininger did for almost two decades\u2014and 340 assignments\u2014from 1943 until 1962, could be defined by a single topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated from the time he was a young boy in Germany by the natural world, Feininger made beautiful pictures of the skeletons and bones of animals, snakes and birds, investing them with an austere power that the creatures perhaps lacked when alive and covered with flesh, fur, feathers or scales. His 1956 picture of Niagara Falls in winter, with two small human forms silhouetted against a scene, might have been lifted from the last Ice Age, while one of his most famous and most frequently reproduced photographs\u2014Route 66 in 1947 Arizona\u2014somehow manages to reference, in a single frame, the allure of the open road, the confluence of the man-made and natural worlds and the myth of the inexhaustible American West.<\/p>\n<p>The author of more than 30 books including at least one acknowledged classic, the autobiography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Andreas-Feininger\/e\/B001HCWC6A%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share\"><em>Andreas Feininger: Photographer<\/em><\/a> (1966) Feininger&#8217;s photographs were shown in solo and group shows in places as diverse as the Museum of Natural History, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icp.org\/browse\/archive\/constituents\/andreas-feininger?all\/all\/all\/all\/0\">International Center of Photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/artists\/1831\">MoMa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/artists\/7572\">the Whitney<\/a>, the Metropolitan, the Smithsonian and in smaller galleries and exhibitions around the world. A retrospective of his six-decade career, featuring 80 of his own favorite black-and-white pictures from 1928 through 1988, toured Europe in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Feininger died in Manhattan in February 1999, at the age of 92.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876260\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876260 desc=\"Photographer Dennis Stock holds a camera  in front of his face, 1955.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Photographer Dennis Stock held a camera in front of his face, 1955.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/01_00028804.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer Dennis Stock holds a camera in front of his face, 1955.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Photographer Dennis Stock held a camera in front of his face, 1955.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876261\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876261 desc=\"A crescent moon rises between Manhattan skyscrapers, 1946.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A crescent moon rises between Manhattan skyscrapers, 1946.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/02_1200046.jpg\" alt=\"A crescent moon rose between Manhattan skyscrapers, 1946.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A crescent moon rises between Manhattan skyscrapers, 1946.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876262\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876262 desc=\"Crowds fill Coney Island&#039;s beaches on the Fourth of July, Brooklyn, New York, 1949.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Crowds filled Coney Island&#039;s beaches on the Fourth of July, Brooklyn, New York, 1949.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/03_01175486-1024x821.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds fill Coney Island&#039;s beaches on the Fourth of July, Brooklyn, New York, 1949.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Crowds filled Coney Island&#8217;s beaches on the Fourth of July, Brooklyn, New York, 1949.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876263\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876263 desc=\"Slinky-like light pattern in the blackness of a moonlit sky produced by a time-exposure of the light-tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter as it takes off, 1949.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"This slinky-like light pattern in the blackness of a moonlit sky was produced by a time-exposure of the light-tipped rotor blades of a helicopter as it took off, 1949.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/04_00282506-1024x812.jpg\" alt=\"Slinky-like light pattern in the blackness of a moonlit sky produced by a time-exposure of the light-tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter as it takes off, 1949.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">This slinky-like light pattern in the blackness of a moonlit sky was produced by a time-exposure of the light-tipped rotor blades of a helicopter as it took off, 1949.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876264\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876264 desc=\"Air Force training, 1944.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Air Force training, 1944.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/05_00597145-1024x983.jpg\" alt=\"Air Force training, 1944.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Air Force training, 1944.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876265\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876265 desc=\"Training for chemical warfare, Maryland, 1944.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Training for chemical warfare, Maryland, 1944.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/06_00845144-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Training for chemical warfare, Maryland, 1944.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Training for chemical warfare, Maryland, 1944.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876266\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876266 desc=\"Dramatic cumulus clouds billow above a Texaco gas station along a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/07_05502662.jpg\" alt=\"Dramatic cumulus clouds billow above a Texaco gas station along a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876267\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876267 desc=\"New York Harbor and midtown, looking straight down bustling 42nd Street, taken with the aid of a 40-inch Dallmeyer telephoto lens two miles away, from New Jersey, 1946.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"This view of midtown Manhattan, looking straight down 42nd Street, was taken with the aid of a 40-inch Dallmeyer telephoto lens two miles away, from New Jersey, 1946.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/08_00845479-1024x824.jpg\" alt=\"New York Harbor and midtown, looking straight down bustling 42nd Street, taken with the aid of a 40-inch Dallmeyer telephoto lens two miles away, from New Jersey, 1946.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">This view of midtown Manhattan, looking straight down 42nd Street, was taken with the aid of a 40-inch Dallmeyer telephoto lens two miles away, from New Jersey, 1946.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876268\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876268 desc=\"Sculptress Ruth Vodicka alters the shoulder of her statue of William Tell, 1956. (She also used her tools to do welding repairs for neighbors.)\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Sculptor Ruth Vodicka altered the shoulder of her statue of William Tell, 1956.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/09_00960084.jpg\" alt=\"Sculptress Ruth Vodicka alters the shoulder of her statue of William Tell, 1956. (She also used her tools to do welding repairs for neighbors.)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Sculptor Ruth Vodicka altered the shoulder of her statue of William Tell, 1956.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-33485\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=33485 desc=\"Studying black widow spiders, 1943.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Studying black widow spiders, 1943.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/10_00839363.jpg\" alt=\"Studying black widow spiders, 1943.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Studying black widow spiders, 1943.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876269\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876269 desc=\"A macro close-up of a millipede, 1950.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A macro close-up of a millipede, 1950.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/11_00846714.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A macro close-up of a millipede, 1950.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-33487\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=33487 desc=\"A forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowd the Signal Hill oil fields in Long Beach, Calif., 1944.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowded the Signal Hill oil fields in Long Beach, Calif., 1944.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/12_1270056-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"A forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowd the Signal Hill oil fields in Long Beach, Calif., 1944.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowded the Signal Hill oil fields in Long Beach, Calif., 1944.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876270\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876270 desc=\"Pouring ingots at an Illinois steel plant, 1944.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Pouring ingots at an Illinois steel plant, 1944.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/13_00845123.jpg\" alt=\"Pouring ingots at an Illinois steel plant, 1944.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Pouring ingots at an Illinois steel plant, 1944.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876271\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876271 desc=\"Laboratory scene of how television works, showing the image of a girl being focused through a lens onto a sensitive plate as an electron beam (its path shown by glowing gases) scans it, 1944.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A laboratory scene showed how television works, with the image of a girl being focused through a lens onto a sensitive plate as an electron beam (its path shown by glowing gases) scanned it, 1944.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/14_05549416.jpg\" alt=\"Laboratory scene of how television works, showing the image of a girl being focused through a lens onto a sensitive plate as an electron beam (its path shown by glowing gases) scans it, 1944.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A laboratory scene showed how television works, with the image of a girl being focused through a lens onto a sensitive plate as an electron beam (its path shown by glowing gases) scanned it, 1944.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876272\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876272 desc=\"Skeleton of a 4-foot-long gaboon viper, showing 160 pairs of movable ribs, 1952.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"This image of a skeleton of a four-foot-long gaboon viper showed its 160 pairs of movable ribs, 1952.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/15_01175504-1024x827.jpg\" alt=\"Skeleton of a 4-foot-long gaboon viper, showing 160 pairs of movable ribs, 1952.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">This image of a skeleton of a four-foot-long gaboon viper showed its 160 pairs of movable ribs, 1952.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876273\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876273 desc=\"Skeletal structure of a bird, 1951.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Skeletal structure of a bird, 1951.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/16_00728611.jpg\" alt=\"Skeletal structure of a bird, 1951.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Skeletal structure of a bird, 1951.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876274\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876274 desc=\"Niagara Falls in winter, 1956.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Niagara Falls in winter, 1956.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/17_00963562.jpg\" alt=\"Niagara Falls in winter, 1956.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Niagara Falls in winter, 1956.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876275\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876275 desc=\"The Statue of Liberty seen during a WWII blackout, 1942.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"The Statue of Liberty during a World War II blackout, 1942.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/18_05590330.jpg\" alt=\"The Statue of Liberty seen during a WWII blackout, 1942.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">The Statue of Liberty during a World War II blackout, 1942.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876276\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876276 desc=\"Doctor&#039;s head mirror, 1955.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Doctor&#039;s head mirror, 1955.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/19_111449231.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor&#039;s head mirror, 1955.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Doctor&#8217;s head mirror, 1955.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-3876277\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=3876277 desc=\"View from a lodge looking up Lake Louise at Victoria Glacier, Canada, 1946.\" caption=\"Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock\" title=\"The view from a lodge at Lake Louise, looking up at Victoria Glacier, Canada, 1946.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated\/2013\/03\/20_05592848.jpg\" alt=\"View from a lodge looking up Lake Louise at Victoria Glacier, Canada, 1946.\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">The view from a lodge at Lake Louise, looking up at Victoria Glacier, Canada, 1946.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger\/Life Pictures\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having proven himself a master metropolitan portraitist with his pictures of New York in the 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