Table of contents:
- 1. Louis Faurer
- 2. In the business center
- 3. Tragic incident
- 4. Orchard Street, 1947
- 5. Play of shadows
- 6. Staten Island Ferry
- 7. Atlantic City
- 8. Lexington Avenue
- 9. Broadway
Video: American Lives in the Mid-20th Century: New Yorkers in Photographs by Louis Faurer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Having started his career in fashion magazines, in the middle of the last century, Louis Faurer turned his attention to New York, where new discoveries awaited the photographer everywhere. Here he found poetic and gloomy images of heroes of the streets, often poor and lonely among the bustle in the "hypnotic twilight" of Times Square.
1. Louis Faurer
2. In the business center
For most of his life, his work was little known to a wide audience, but was deeply admired by other photographers. His images are honest and empathetic. Faurer often focused on the quiet moments of bustling Manhattan. He experimented with reflections, blur, double exposure, and grain.
3. Tragic incident
Louis Faurer was born in Philadelphia in 1916 to Polish immigrants. I bought my first camera at the age of 21. Before becoming a photographer, he studied drawing, created advertising posters, worked in several portrait studios in Philadelphia and drew cartoons in Atlantic City. In 1947, he left for New York, where he became a photographer at the Junior Bazaar. Soon he met Robert Frank, with whom he became friends and began to share with him an attic and a studio.
4. Orchard Street, 1947
In the 1950s, Faurer established himself in an ironic, brooding aesthetics, often used graphic contrasts, reflections and distortions, which traced the influence of noir films, and delved into the study of personality psychology.
5. Play of shadows
6. Staten Island Ferry
My eyes are looking for people who are grateful for life, people who forgive, who cast aside doubts, understand the truth, whose indestructible spirit is bathed in such a piercing light that it gives hope to their present and future - Louis Faurer.
7. Atlantic City
8. Lexington Avenue
9. Broadway
Faurer's photographs of New York in the 1940s and 1960s undoubtedly influenced subsequent generations of photographers. His work is significant for the history of photography and the art world. Faurer stopped taking photographs in 1984 when he was hit by a car. The photographer passed away in March 2001. Louis Faurer's works are in permanent collections in museums around the world.
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