Andreas Feininger was a French-born American photographer known for his wide range of subject matter. In his photo Route 66, Arizona (1947), which was taken for LIFE magazine, Feininger visually conveyed the legend of the road’s infinite length. “What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it,” he once explained. Born on December 27, 1906 in Paris, France, his father was the American-German painter Lyonel Feininger. He went on to study at the Weimar Bauhaus during the 1920s. Though he mainly studied architecture, Feininger developed an interest in photography after taking courses with a Bauhaus professor and friend of his father’s László Moholy-Nagy. In 1936, he abandoned his...