Dimensions: 18.9 x 12.5
Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-0-500-41132-2
Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922–2016) first took up a camera as a teenager and went on to establish an extraordinary career that lasted almost eighty years. After photographing life on the streets of New York, he joined the famous Photo League and befriended Sid Grossman and Weegee. In the Second World War he served as a combat photographer, and the fight against fascism strengthened his faith in Marxism and the working class.
Living between New York and Paris, he amassed a huge body of work that combined elements of New York street photography with lyrical humanism in the French style. His subjects were many and varied: passengers on the subway and tourists in the streets, Spanish fishermen and American beatniks, protests and demonstrations, landscapes and trees. But no matter where he found himself, he looked for beauty in the everyday and never lost his fundamental compassion and solidarity with ordinary people.
The Photofile series brings together the world's greatest photographers and provides an accessible introduction to their oeuvre. Opening with a brief introduction on the subject and presenting key images from the artist's body of work, each book captures his or her style and breadth. The series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography, New York.
Text in English.
Introduction by Virginie Chardin.
©Photographs by Louis Stettner, Archives Louis Stettner
