Andreas Feininger's New York

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

Many of the photographs in the exhibition focus on the iconic features of the city: the Brooklyn Bridge, the ultramodern Rockefeller Center, and the bustle of Fifth Avenue. Feininger's images convey a remarkable sense of design, and he often used a telephoto lens to compress buildings, automobiles, and people into dense, vibrant images. He was one of the leading staff photographers of Life magazine from 1943 to 1962 when photojournalism was at its creative peak.

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Andreas Feininger was one of the leading staff photographers of Life magazine from 1943 to 1962 when photojournalism was at its creative peak. His innovative work explored a breadth of themes, including architecture, nature, and scientific research, but he is perhaps best known for his dynamic views of New York City. This exhibition brings together eight large prints that form a compelling portrait of the city and its environs in the late 1940s. Feininger’s vision of New York—full of space, light, and energy—captured the prosperity and sense of optimism that characterized the postwar period.

Many of the photographs in the exhibition focus on the iconic features of the city: the Brooklyn Bridge, the ultramodern Rockefeller Center, and the bustle of Fifth Avenue. Feininger’s images convey a remarkable sense of design, and he often used a telephoto lens to compress buildings, automobiles, and people into dense, vibrant images. Lower Manhattan from Midtown provides a dramatic overview of the island looking toward the skyscrapers of the financial district and the Statue of Liberty, which is engulfed in sunlight gleaming off of the water.

Feininger (American, born France, 1906–99) was the son of the distinguished painter Lyonel Feininger. In the mid-1920s Andreas studied at the Bauhaus, the progressive German art school where his father taught. After graduating, he used a 35mm Leica camera to record his observations and responses to the European cities of Paris, Hamburg, and Stockholm. Turmoil in Europe spurred him to move to the United States in 1937, when he began his association with Life and his fascination with New York City.

Andreas Feininger’s New York is curated by Eric Lutz, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, and is on view May 25 through August 19, 2007, in Gallery 321. It showcases significant recent gifts from the artist and his family. These generous gifts have made works by Feininger one of the largest collections by a single photographer in the Museum’s holdings.

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