Charles R Hale on Nostr: Andreas Feininger's #photography serves as a visual biography of #NewYork City in its ...
Andreas Feininger's #photography serves as a visual biography of #NewYork City in its postwar years. Paris-born, raised in Germany, Feininger’s pictures of New York in the 1940s and ’50s helped define, not merely how a great 20th century city looked, but how it imagined itself and its place in the world.
A Sunday at Coney Island Beach, 1949. Click on the #photo to expand it. It really is some photo!
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