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Andreas Feininger

Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (December 27, 1906 – February 18, 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects. • Illustration — The Photojournalist, showing the photojournalist Dennis Stock, may be Feininger's best-known photograph; he took it for Life in 1951. • Illustration — View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado, 1942, a photograph taken when Feininger was an employee of the Office of War Information (OWI) • Illustration — Creede, Colorado in 1942, another OWI photograph by Feininger

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Andreas Feininger · This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a34848. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attache · Public domain

Born
1906
Died
1999
Nationality
France · United States
Occupation
photographer · architect · painter

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Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (December 27, 1906 – February 18, 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects. • Illustration — The Photojournalist, showing the photojournalist Dennis Stock, may be Feininger's best-known photograph; he took it for Life in 1951. • Illustration — View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado, 1942, a photograph taken when Feininger was an employee of the Office of War Information (OWI) • Illustration — Creede, Colorado in 1942, another OWI photograph by Feininger

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Andreas Feininger (1906–1999) was an architect, painter and photographer, of French and American nationality. The architect was born in Paris and died in New York City.

Andreas Feininger was educated at Bauhaus. The architect worked in New York City, Paris and Sweden. Activity centred on photography. Languages used include English and German.

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