{"id":3539,"date":"2013-02-06T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2013-02-06T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:44:15","slug":"photos-of-skulls-inspired-by-andreas-feininger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/photos-of-skulls-inspired-by-andreas-feininger\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Skulls – inspired by Andreas Feininger"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a teenager I lived in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. A couple of blocks from my house was King Street, the main east-west corridor through the heart of downtown. In my neck of the woods was what the city fathers dubbed “the International Village” which is mostly gone now, but at the time it consisted of a Chinese Restaurant, a German deli, a German restaurant, and a German-language bookstore. The bookstore was one of the first casualties of the area’s economic decline in the 80s and they were selling off books cheap – as I had picked up some German from high school classes, I wandered in. \u00a0I picked up a great large-format book of black and white photographs by Andreas Feininger<\/a> called das Antlitz der Natu<\/a>r (published in English as the Anatomy of Nature<\/a>), a collection mostly of\u00a0skeletal anatomy photos. Many of the pictures had appeared in LIFE magazine in 1951<\/a>, perhaps unsurprisingly as Feininger was a staff photographer for LIFE at the time. Feininger is best known for artistic nude<\/a>s and architecture\u00a0like New York in the 40s<\/a>, but I didn’t know that at the time – I was simply enthralled by das Antlitz der Natur<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t