Andreas Feininger

He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.

(Zerbst is a city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, about 20 km from Dessau, where the Bauhaus moved to in 1926.)

In addition to continuing his architectural studies in Zerbst, Andreas developed an interest in photography and was given guidance by neighbour and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy.

In advance of World War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S., where he established himself as a freelance photographer.

Other frequent subjects among his works were science and nature, as seen in bones, shells, plants, and minerals in the images of which he often stressed their structure.

The Photojournalist , showing the photojournalist Dennis Stock , may be Feininger's best-known photograph; he took it for Life in 1951.
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)
Creede, Colorado in 1942, another OWI photograph by Feininger