Article: Obituary: Abe Feder

From the age of 14 to his death at 87, Abe Feder dedicated himself exclusively, obsessively, to illumination in a vast range of applications.

Feder was not only America's first modern "lighting designer" for the theatre, both experimental and Broadway, he also became the country's leading architectural and urban lighting consultant. Thus Feder's resume runs in two distinct columns: hundreds of plays, musicals and operas; and a huge number of buildings. These lists reveal an impressive chronology and grandeur: My Fair Lady (1956) can be matched by the Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, or The Cradle Will Rock (1938) with Hartford Athenaeum - a parallel history of the most important theatre ...

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