Re: Debunking the telephoto lens myth?

[Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mine too, and then I went through his later books and found them to be too similar to the first one. I was on the Pulaski Skyway one afternoon heading west and looked down and saw a guy working with a Deardorff and almost wrecked the car getting down to talk to him. He wasn’t Feininger, but he was shooting an 810 ‘Dorff with a 1200mm lens on it. 

On Feb 18, 2016, at 11:03 PM, 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!

-------- Original Message --------
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.

Art Faul

The Artist Formerly Known as Prints

------

Stills That Move: http://www.artfaul.com

Camera Works - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/battlefieldparks/front_qt.htm

ArtNet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan+w.-faul/

.