ANDREAS FEININGER: PHOTOGRAPHER - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Andreas Feininger - ONLY SUCH SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Feininger, Andreas (Photographer) & Enyeart, James (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 0810909197 / ISBN 13: 9780810909199

Published by New York City, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, 1986

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 231 pages. Published in 1986. Landmark retrospective collection of the photographer's body of work. The single best book on the photographic art and achievement of Andreas Feininger. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Andreas Feininger and Judith Michael: Oversize-volume format: A huge book. Pale gray cloth boards with miniature photographic reproduction on cover and silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Andreas Feininger. He traces his development as an artist and expands on his concerns as a photographer. Foreword by James Enyeart, Director of The Center of Creative Photography Tucson. Dazzling pictorial endpapers. Printed on pristine-white, archival coated stock paper in Tokyo to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ that shows the brilliant young photographer Dennis Stock holding a camera to his eyes, the camera, in effect, replacing his naked eye, and black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Andreas Feininger: Photographer". His personal selection of his impressive body of work, one of the most important in the history of photography. Surveys the long and distinguished achievements of the Swedish-born photographer: Cityscapes of Stockholm (his earliest work), New York City, and Chicago; microscopic studies of plant forms, insects, trees, and seashells that reveal their hidden structure and beauty; innovative experimental work that is inspired by the Bauhaus School; female nudes. It should be noted that the Cover Image is itself one of the greatest - iconic, indelible, perfect - images ever taken by Andreas Feininger that captures what a photographer is: As not just an extension but as a substitute for, even replacement of, the naked eye. The son of Lyonel and brother of Lux Feininger, Andreas Feininger worked for LIFE Magazine for twenty years and produced for that legendary magazine some of its best images. As such, the Feininger aesthetic and imagery is compositionally impeccable and intentionally less emotional, even austere when compared to his great contemporaries and to contemporary Instagram "photographers", who insult us with their mediocre, derivative, really bad photographs on a relentless daily basis. An absolute "must-have" title for Andreas Feininger collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on his personal bookplate (that is neatly pasted on the half-title page) by Andreas Feininger. This title is a great photography book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. 197 plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 0810909197.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ANDREAS FEININGER: PHOTOGRAPHER - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Andreas Feininger - ONLY SUCH SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1986
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810909197
• ISBN 13: 9780810909199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Fine- Hardcover Abrams:, 1986. 231 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The photographers here were specially chosen by Feininger to sum up his multifaceted career." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Fine-. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Reviews

Feininger has selected 199 of his finest photographs from 1928 to the present. His accompanying narrative is a personal history, covering his entire life. Especially interesting is the relation of his youthful indecision and questing. The book serves as a retrospective of his work and richly shows the variety of his art and technique. A prolific author, Feininger is well able to verbalize his feelings about his art and to write clearly about his sometimes unorthodox methods. Here, he offers a litte of his philosophy of art, and some general discussion of his technique. The quality of the prints is excellent. This belongs in both general and special collections. Johanna Ezell, Mont Alto Campus Lib., Pennsylvania State Univ.
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