Artist of the Week/ Andreas Feininger

This photograph by Andreas Feininger demonstrates the mastery of landscape photography,
the manner in which the elements are captured, demonstrates the artistic technique called perspective's rendition into real life, as the roads get smaller and smaller into the distance. The clouds, hills, and sea, make a great backdrop behind the gloomy black buildings, though all areas are clogged with fog. The way in which most of the fog is over the building in the city also creates the idea that it is highly polluted because of it's density. I really like this photograph because of the nice angle and the high height at which it was taken.

This photograph is of Queen Mary, the ocean liner that rides the Hudson River, this photograph is similar to the above in that the tall city buildings serve as a backdrop for the image. I think that Andreas Feininger really was able to get the point across that the ocean liner is actually huge. You can see the massive steam tops reaching a third of the tallest buildings' heights. I really like this photograph because of this comparison of size between the ocean liner and entire city.