{"id":5354278,"date":"2019-10-16T20:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354278"},"modified":"2019-10-16T20:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:15:04","slug":"andreas-feininger","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Feininger"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da07f24aac74\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355236 desc=\"Asset ID: 1201300. \" caption=\"Andreas Feininger looking at negatives with a magnifying glass. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201435\/1201300-e1571256874200-974x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas Feininger looking at negatives with a magnifying glass. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \/ Shutterstock)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Andreas Feininger looking at negatives with a magnifying glass. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LIFE&#8217;S photographers were known for their images of people, but Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was a profound exception. His concerns were basically with things, perhaps a continuum from his early career as an architect (he worked for a year with Le Corbusier). &#8220;Realism and super-realism are what I am after. This world is full of things the eye doesn&#8217;t see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.&#8221; Yet it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;photography&#8221; he was after, but a photograph: &#8220;I want to get shots of the things I&#8217;m interested in. I use it as a means to an end.&#8221; He combined masterly technique with a discerning eye to produce work that is harmonious and incisive.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da07f29aac75\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355237 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051092. \" caption=\"S.S. United States sailing in New York harbor. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201348\/United_States_IC-e1571256828940-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"S.S. United States sailing in New York harbor. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">S.S. United States sailing in New York harbor. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feininger took this picture &#8220;because I felt putting these two achievements together gives you a fantastic look at the achievements of man. Man has built this enormous city and this enormous ship.. . there are tiny people lining the bridge of the ship. They are clear but very small. To think that people no bigger than these have constructed and built that enormous ship. That is almost unbelievable.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da7789550c55\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355238 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051088. \" caption=\"Forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowd the Signal Hill oil fields. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201311\/13051088-e1571256791891-1024x801.jpg\" alt=\"Forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowd the Signal Hill oil fields. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Forest of wells, rigs and derricks crowd the Signal Hill oil fields. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As John Loengard notes in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Photographers-What-They-Saw\/dp\/0821225189\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=life+photographers+what+they+saw&amp;qid=1570119967&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LIFE Photographers: What They Saw<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, these oil derricks are ugly but also somehow grand and dramatic. Feininger responded that he &#8220;did that deliberately because that way, people remember what oil stands for, what this pursuit of oil does to the environment. I had to go pretty far back to find the perspective that puts all these derricks close together. That is how I got this feeling of their importance and their dynamic and their horror. They have totally ruined the whole landscape as far as you can see&#8230;It is dead, totally dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da778a950c56\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355239 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051090. \" caption=\"Light pattern produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201225\/Helicopter_IC-e1571256745868-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"Light pattern produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Light pattern produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5da778c150c57\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355240 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051086. \" caption=\"Photographer Dennis Stock holding camera to his face so that the lens looks like his right eye and the viewfinder his left eye. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201102\/Fein_A_IRC-e1571256661678-807x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer Dennis Stock holding camera to his face so that the lens looks like his right eye and the viewfinder his left eye. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Photographer Dennis Stock holding camera to his face so that the lens looks like his right eye and the viewfinder his left eye. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355241 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051089. \" caption=\"Dramatic cumulus clouds billowing over a Texaco gas station along a stretch of highway US 66, aka Route 6. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201013\/Route66_IRC2-e1571256612298-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dramatic cumulus clouds billowing over a Texaco gas station along a stretch of highway US 66, aka Route 6. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Dramatic cumulus clouds billowing over a Texaco gas station along a stretch of highway US 66, aka Route 6. (Photo by Andreas Feininger\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE&#8217;S photographers were known for their images of people, but Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was a profound exception. His concerns were basically with things, perhaps a continuum from his early career as an architect (he worked for a year with Le Corbusier). &#8220;Realism and super-realism are what I am after. This world is full of things &#8230; <a title=\"Andreas Feininger\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5355239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354278","photographer","type-photographer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Photography of Andreas Feininger | LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Andreas Feininger, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US &amp; around the World.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Photography of Andreas Feininger | LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about Andreas Feininger, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US &amp; around the World.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-16T20:15:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201225\/Helicopter_IC-e1571256745868.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"805\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/\",\"name\":\"The Photography of Andreas Feininger | LIFE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201225\/Helicopter_IC-e1571256745868.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-16T20:15:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-16T20:15:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn about Andreas Feininger, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/andreas-feininger\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201225\/Helicopter_IC-e1571256745868.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/16201225\/Helicopter_IC-e1571256745868.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":805,\"caption\":\"Light pattern produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter. 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