Nature's Pencil: Inspiration: Andreas Feininger
Andreas Feininger trained as an architect at the Bauhaus, and worked in Le Corbusier's studio in the 1930's before moving to New York in 1939 and becoming a full time photographer. He appears to have been totally dedicated to his art and craft. I read somewhere that he exposed no fewer than 10 films a day for his entire working life.
Perversely his most famous image is the uncharacteristic 1955 shot, The Photojournalist featuring prize-winning Magnum photographer Dennis Stock ... looking like some kind of bionic creature ... with a Leica III to his face, one eye hidden by the ancillary viewfinder, the other by the lens.
His really valuable work is his record of the buildings, industry, and people of New York during one of its happiest and liveliest periods.
