Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to confess that this is a thread that I haven't been following, so I'm not certain just which Feininger photograph is being discussed. Is it a graphically arresting vertical portrait of a young person looking through the auxiliary viewfinder of a camera held vertically and close to the face? With the face itself illuminated only at the center by a tightly cut circle of light that leaves the figure's hair in shadow, so that it's hard to tell whether it's hair or a cap? (Sorry for the foot- long descriptive sentences.) If that's the photograph we're talking about, it's a portrait of a very young Dennis Stock, now a Magnum photographer. Feininger did it in 1951 (I think) on a studio assigment for Life magazine about a competition for young photographers that Life had sponsored. If this *isn't* the photograph that you've been talking about, then I'm sorry for butting in on the end of a conversation uninvited. Regards Dan Bowdoin (who can't remember his own cell phone number, but who can dredge this kind of stuff up out of his memory instantly)