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Arts > Photo > USA > Louis Stettner 1922-2016
“The King and Queen of Coney Island” (1946).
Photograph: Louis Stettner Centre Georges Pompidou
Louis Stettner, Photographer of Everyday Poetry NYT October 14, 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/10/15/
Assembly Line Worker, Long Island City, New York, 1972–1974
Photograph: Louis Stettner
It would be fair to say that Stettner’s photographs have achieved more recognition than he did.
Many of his images are well known but his name is not, despite recent efforts to redress this.
Now that name recognition and personality are what oil the market of culture, Stettner’s relative obscurity could be seen as refreshing
‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives – in pictures He would take candid snaps on the New York subway while pretending to adjust his camera. Now, a new monograph aims to bring the photographer’s work to a wider audience
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jul/11/
Louis Stettner 1922-2016
photographer who explored the streets of the two cities he called his “spiritual mothers,” New York and Paris, recording the daily lives of ordinary people
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Mr. Stettner, a New Yorker, was a product of the Photo League and its emphasis on socially conscious, documentary work, exemplified by members and supporters like Weegee, and Robert Frank.
“I have never been interested in photographs based solely on aesthetics, divorced from reality,” he wrote in his photo collection “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets,” published in 1999.
“I also doubt very much whether this is possible.”
While living in Paris after World War II, he also found inspiration in a new wave of French photographers, including Robert Doisneau, Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose outlook seemed to dovetail with the league’s.
He was particularly taken with Brassaï.
“Brassaï showed me that it was possible to find something significant in photographing subjects in everyday life doing ordinary things by interpreting them in your own way and with your own personal vision,” Mr. Stettner told The Financial Times in June.
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