Object number2001.17.24
Helicopter during Takeoff, New Jersey
Date1949
Artist
Andreas Feininger
(American, b. France, 1906 - 1999)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed later
DimensionsImage: 15 3/16 x 19 in. (38.5 x 48.3 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 19 13/16 in. (40.6 x 50.3 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 19 13/16 in. (40.6 x 50.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Feininger Family
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn verso, signed lower right in ink: Andreas Feininger
InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, lower center in pencil: 1629
BibliographyBuchsteiner, Thomas; Andreas Feininger; Otto. Letze. Andreas Feininger: That’s Photography. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2004, p. 110;
Feininger, Andreas. Andreas Feininger, Photographer. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1986. p. 142 (variant cropping);
Feininger, Andreas; Bhupendra Karia. Andreas Feininger: A Retrospective. New York: International Center of Photography, 1976 , fig. 71, p. 41;
Feininger, Andreas; Thomas. Buchsteiner; Ursula Zeller. Andreas Feininger: ein Fotografenleben [a photographer’s life: 1906-1999]. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010, p. 110;
Life Magazine, February 28, 1949, pp. 14-15;
Lombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 63;
Smith, Joel. Andreas Feininger. Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2003, p. 10
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryAndreas Feininger, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 17 - March 16, 2003; Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019; Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024DescriptionBlack and white image of a naval helicopter landing, with a slinky-like pattern in the sky made by the wing lights due to a longer exposure. The details on the helicopter, such as the star on its tale indicate it is a military aircraft. The moon is small and sits in the upper center.
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