{"id":13928,"date":"2019-02-19T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13928"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:03:46","slug":"andreas-feininger-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/andreas-feininger-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Feininger, Photographer and the Family of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13930\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/photo-by-Andreas-Feininger-Family-of-Man-exhibit-Life-Feb.-14-1955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13930\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feininger_The_Photojournalist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the photojournalist (Dennis Stock) by Andreas Feininger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. in the late 1960s, I subscribed to the TIME-LIFE series on photography. I learned many things from each book. The very first one was called &#8220;<em>The Camera<\/em>&#8221; and on page 61, it showed this photograph by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andreas_Feininger\">Andreas Feininger<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Stock\">Dennis Stock<\/a> called &#8220;the photojournalist&#8221;. \u00a0I was fascinated since I was thinking strongly of Leicas at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This all came back to me the other day when George Dunbar sent an email about Feininger&#8217;s photograph in the famous 1955 exhibition and later book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Family_of_Man\">The Family of Man<\/a>&#8220;. Looking at the mass of people on <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/photo-by-Andreas-Feininger-Family-of-Man-exhibit-Life-Feb.-14-1955.jpg\">Fifth Avenue in NYC<\/a> taken by Feininger with a long telephoto lens, one can see how appropriate it was for that exhibition and book.<\/p>\n<p>The mass of people appear in a photograph reproduced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=N1QEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">February 14, 1955<\/a> issue of LIFE magazine on page 139.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. in the late 1960s, I subscribed to the TIME-LIFE series on photography. I learned many things from each book. The very first one was called &#8220;The Camera&#8221; and on page 61, it showed this photograph by Andreas Feininger of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/andreas-feininger-photographer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2457,397,2456,304,425,613,5,2458],"class_list":["post-13928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-andreas-feininger","tag-book","tag-dennis-stock","tag-exhibit","tag-life","tag-photo","tag-photographer","tag-the-family-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13960,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928\/revisions\/13960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}