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1906 Born in Paris, France, on 27 December, from an American family of German origin. His father, Lyonel Feininger, was born in New York City, in 1871. His great-grandfather emigrated from Durlach, Baden, in Germany, towards United States in 1848. |
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1914-1922 Attended the public school in Zehlendorf and Weimar, Germany. |
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1922-1925 Attended the Bauhaus in Weimar; she becomes cabinetmaker. |
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1925-1928 Attended the technical institute in Weimar and Zerbst, Germany; He took degree in architecture summacum laude. He begins to show interest towards photography and learns by himself the bases of photographic techniques. He builds his first dark room in the basement of his house. |
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1929-1931 Works as architect in Dessau and Hamburg, Germany. It's involved in photography as supplement of his job of architect. He sells his first photos to some German newspapers and magazines through the photographic agency Dephot. |
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1932-1933 Works as architect for Le Corbusier in Paris. He takes photos of roads of Paris with his Leica. |
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1936-1939 He changes from architecture to photography working in Sweden and realizing photos of architectures and industries. He constructs his first camera; focal length 70cm on a 6 1/2 x 9 cm film. He writes some books of photographic techniques for Walter Heering Verlag in Bad Harzburg, Germany. He realizes the photographic book Stockholm. He performs some experiments with reticulation, solarization and emboss and realizes the book New Paths in Photography, in which he deals with these arguments. He leaves Sweden in December of 1939, and goes to New York. |
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1940 He works as professional photo reporter for the Black Star Picture Agency. He is introduced to the picture editor of Life, Wilson Hicks, and realizes his first assignment for Life: among the others, coloured stories on linings and matches bags. |
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1941 Leaves the Black Star and becomes a photographer of Life with a minimum wage. He constructs his second camera: focal length 100 cm on a 4 x 5 film. |
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1943-1962 Works as full time photographer for Life, realizing 346 assignments for the magazine. Encouraged by the publisher Wilson Hicks, he writes Feininger on Photography, followed later by other books on photographic technique. |
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1959 Realizes a series of photos during his travel in Europe for the book Man and Stone. |
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1962 During an other travel in Europe, realizes photos for his book Trees. |
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1966-1971 He makes a travel along the roads of United States and returns a lot of times in Europe to complete his book Trees. |
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1972 Organizes a course of creative photographic communication at the New York University. |
