Description:
three photographs mounted together; top image close up of man's face with glasses, man squinting, left arm crossed over his body, and left hand touching right side of forehead; bottom left image, low angle shot of man sitting on bicycle with second man standing next to him; lower right image shows two men, man in front playing banjo and sitting in right profile wearing a fedora hat, other man leaning over and grinning; portrait; friends
Label Text:
Feininger entered Germany’s famous Bauhaus, a modernist school for art and craft, at the age of sixteen. Although the Bauhaus did not officially teach photography until 1929, Feininger applied the school’s modernist aesthetic to candid photographs of his fellow students. These three images display the exaggerated angles, use of extreme close-ups, and dynamic cropping that distinguished contemporary developments in European photography in the 1920s.
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