Here is a stunning collection of the master artist's most creative photographic images, a book that could well prove to be the determining factor in elevating your own photographs to works that matter. To quote from Feininger's text: "There is a world of difference between photographs that merely provide reproductions of the subject they depict, and those that present interesting, stimulating, and thought-provoking interpretations. That world of difference is the subject of this volume, the extraordinary images of which reflect the philosophy of Andreas Feininger. Feininger's photographs epitomize the ideals of creative thinking and a disciplined photographic methodology. His early experiments in Sweden with telephoto lenses produced dynamic results. Later on, explorations of such processes as bas-relief, reticulation, solarization, and direct projection led to totally different but equally expressive images. Feininger's gifted insight found further expression in the field of extreme close-up photography, made famous in his widely published photographs of insects and shells. In recent years, he has effectively utilized his encyclopedic knowledge of photographic controls to transform everyday scenes of New York into expressive graphic commentaries on the cold impersonality of the giant city. Reproduced in the finest duotone lithography, each picture shows its subject in a form significantly superior to what the unaided eye would have seen in reality. The total effect is one of impressive skill and novel imagination, the hallmark of one of the most inspiring photographers of our time.