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'''Andreas''' Bernhard Lyonel '''Feininger''' (27 December 1906 – 18 February 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was the son of the painter [[Lyonel Feininger]], he studied cabinetmaking and architecture at the Bauhaus and established a Swedish firm specializing in architectural and industrial photography. He immigrated to New York City and became a staff photographer for Life magazine. | '''Andreas''' Bernhard Lyonel '''Feininger''' (27 December 1906 – 18 February 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was the son of the painter [[Lyonel Feininger]], he studied cabinetmaking and architecture at the Bauhaus and established a Swedish firm specializing in architectural and industrial photography. He immigrated to New York City and became a staff photographer for Life magazine. | ||
| − | The most famous photo of Feininger is ''The Photojournalist'', Life magazine, 1951 | + | ==Works== |
| + | [[File:Andreas_Feininger,_The_Photojournalist,_1951.jpg|thumb|200px|''The Photojournalist'', 1951]] | ||
| + | The most famous photo of Feininger is ''The Photojournalist'', published ''Life'' magazine, 1951. This image stresses the “unity” between the photographer’s eyes and the lens of his camera. It depicts the photographer as a sneak safely hidden behind the camera, which not only covers but also replaces the eyes. The fusion of the lens and the eye is nothing new. Since the beginning of photography, the lens of the camera has been compared with human vision. In the nineteenth century, before knowing that the human brain creates the images we see, people believed that the images they saw appeared on the retina. That’s probably why Joseph Nicéphore Niépce referred to the camera he was building in 1816 as an artificial retina, while the images, which could not yet be fixed, he called "retinas" [http://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-photographers-eye-or-the-eye-of-the-camera/]. | ||
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| + | ==Links== | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Feininger Andreas Feininger on Wikipedia] | ||
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| + | [[Category:Photography|Feininger, Andreas]] | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 14 January 2014
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (27 December 1906 – 18 February 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was the son of the painter Lyonel Feininger, he studied cabinetmaking and architecture at the Bauhaus and established a Swedish firm specializing in architectural and industrial photography. He immigrated to New York City and became a staff photographer for Life magazine.
Works
The most famous photo of Feininger is The Photojournalist, published Life magazine, 1951. This image stresses the “unity” between the photographer’s eyes and the lens of his camera. It depicts the photographer as a sneak safely hidden behind the camera, which not only covers but also replaces the eyes. The fusion of the lens and the eye is nothing new. Since the beginning of photography, the lens of the camera has been compared with human vision. In the nineteenth century, before knowing that the human brain creates the images we see, people believed that the images they saw appeared on the retina. That’s probably why Joseph Nicéphore Niépce referred to the camera he was building in 1816 as an artificial retina, while the images, which could not yet be fixed, he called "retinas" [1].
