Best known today for his stunning urban panoramas of Manhattan and the extreme close-ups of natural objects he took during his 20 years as a staff photographer for Life Magazine, Feininger (1906–1999) began his career in Stockholm in the 1930s. Trained at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany, he moved to Paris and then, when the Nazis came to power, to Stockholm, quickly establishing himself as one of Sweden’s foremost architectural photographers. The Stockholm photographs reflect his architectural training as well as Bauhaus theories of photography considered provocative by the Swedish establishment in the 1930s. During Feininger’s years in Sweden he developed the techniques and themes he was to explore throughout his long career, honing his photographic vision in a city he considered superior to other European and American capitals from a photographer’s point of view. His carefully-composed, sharply-focused street scenes and harbor panoramas – often taken with a super-telephoto camera of his own design – demonstrate the great technical skill that astonished American audiences in later decades.The exhibition will be on display at Scandinavia House from September 15 to November 7.Andreas Feininger: Stockholm 1933–39Scandinavia House58 Park Avenue at 38th StreetNew York CitySeptember 15 – November 7For more information: www.scandinaviahouse.orgPhoto: Andreas Feininger, view of Kungsgatan from Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm