Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger (*1925 Paris, +1999 New York) was a photographer, famous for his architecture photography and for his comprehensive photography teaching books. He had studied architecture at the famous Bauhaus in Dessau. He emigrated from Nazi-Germany via Paris and Stockholm to the U.S. in 1939, where he became photo-reporter for the "LIFE" magazine in 1943.

He worked much with view cameras and tele lenses, some of them self-made.