Re: Debunking the telephoto lens myth?

[John Gulliver <j.gulliver@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree about Feininger Snr. and his book. He wrote well. I know this picture too, for which he invented a tripod with an extra leg to support not only the camera but the long lens to reduce possible vibration. 

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On 19 Feb 2016, at 04:03, andpph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Andreas Feininger was my first photo teacher by way of one of his books ... many of his books were slightly modified versions of the first one. I say this with a twinkle in my eye!

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Subject: Re: Debunking the telephoto lens myth?
From: Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, February 18, 2016 4:40 pm
To: "PHOTOFORUM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My first purchase of a photo book was one by Andrea Feininger in which he showed the use of an extremely long telephoto lens from out in NJ looking towards Manhattan and it compresses NJ into a series of hills and sort of pasted the Empire State Building in at the back. Every time I drove to NYC I thought of his work with the Pulaski Skyway and the flattening of NJ.