Andreas Feininger Books

Born in Paris and raised in Germany, Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was the son of American artist and Bauhaus teacher Lyonel Feininger. By the 1920s, the younger Feininger had already established several stylistic traits in his photographic work, such as monumentalized subject matter and emphasis on texture and line. His nature photographs tend to reveal patterns in animal and plant forms as found in the backbones of a snake or veins in a leaf. After immigrating to America in 1939, Feininger completed almost 350 photographic essays for Life magazine between 1943 and 1962. In addition he published numerous books on photographic theory and technique and his photographs were included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition "The Family of Man." Structures of Nature presents a selection of Feininger's stunning nature photography. An essay by N. Elizabeth Schlatter considers his work in the context of German photography between the two world wars and in comparison with his American contemporaries.

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

This book is a superb collection of American scenes taken in the 1940, 1950s and 1960s by one of photography's all time greats, Andreas Feininger.Each image is a fine example of Feininger's incorruptible sense of proportion, a tribute to the inimitable aesthetic quality that became the signature of his work. Many illustrate his ceaseless quest to minimize the difference between idea and reality, his desire to allow mundane subjects to slip into Utopia.Feininger's America is a photographic tour de force, from Chicago to New Orleans, from Hollywood to Coral Gables.

Photographs show natural patterns found in feathers, shells, seeds, leaves, bones, cobwebs, beehives, nests, flowers, pine cones, bark, marine life, and frost

This collection of photographs by the former Life magazine photographer is both a practical identification guide and a rich compendium of stunning prints--most never before published. Beginning with a chapter on identifying leaves of 50 northeastern deciduous trees, Andreas Feininger brings his practiced eye and technical skill to an illuminating study of leaves--their function in the life of the plant, variations in size and form, complex structure, infinite diversity, and aesthetic appeal. 129 pages; 199 b&w reproductions; 9 x 10.75 inches.