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Structures of Nature: Photographs by Andreas Feininger

In "Structures of Nature", the University of Richmond Museums has assembled a collection of Andreas Feininger's black-and-white photographic tributes to the beauty of patterns in the natural world. Though best known for his nostalgic slice-of-life snapshot of the crowds at Coney Island (1949), Andreas Feininger possessed a remarkable talent for capturing both the scientific and the artistic in something as minute as the veins of a single leaf to the regimented chaos of an untamed forest. In recognition of the equal strengths of both these aspects, his work has been shown in both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Natural History.

Elizabeth Schlatter, Assistant Director and Curator of the Structures of Nature exhibit a the University of Richmond, initiated this project a year after Andreas Feininger's death in 1999. The collection is presented in three installments: Sea Creatures, Spirals & Symmetry; Micro & Macro; and Plants & Patterns. Her introductory essay on the life, background and influences on Andreas Feininger's nature studies concisely explores the photoartist's intended matrix of connections that exist amongst the eternal structures of both organism and ecology.