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Andreas Feininger - New York

September 27, 2007- November 13, 2007

Reception: September 27, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Andreas Feininger

Alan Klotz Gallery

511 W 25th St

This exhibition of twenty-two vintage and modern gelatin silver photographs shows Feininger’s total involvement with New York, his adopted home since 1939 where he arrived at the age of 33. Born in Paris in 1906, the son of the painter Lyonel Feininger, Andreas trained as an architect in Germany, and worked for a year in France under the notable French architect Le Corbusier. Feininger, who had taken up photography in 1928, left France in 1933 and moved to Stockholm, Sweden to pursue a career as a photographer (see also a concurrent show of his Stockholm photographs at Scandinavia House www.scandinaviahouse.org).

In 1939 as WWII approached, Feininger moved to New York, and immediately began photographing all aspects of the city… its architecture, people, and atmosphere. To Feininger, traffic jams and crowd scenes were as important expressions of the city as was its skyline. He published a large compendium of this work titled New York in 1945. In 1942 he joined the staff of LIFE magazine and continued his involvement there until 1962. In 1966 he was given the coveted Robert Leavitt Award by the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and in 1991 he was awarded the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award. He published over 50 books of photographs in his lifetime. His photographs can be found in such prestigious public collections as: The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), The Museum of the City of New York (NYC), The National Gallery (Washington, DC), The George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and the Stockholm City Museum.

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