1. Louis Faurer was an American candid or street photographer.
10 Facts About Louis Faurer
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Louis Faurer was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions In and Out of Focus and The Family of Man.
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Louis Faurer bought his first camera in 1937 from the photographer Ben Somoroff.
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Louis Faurer did fashion photography for Vogue, Junior Bazaar, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Elle, and Glamour, as well as assignments for Life and Look for more than twenty years.
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Louis Faurer complained that his work at Life involved too much travel, so he quit in the early 1950s.
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Louis Faurer photographed the streets of New York City and Philadelphia, capturing the restless energy of urban life.
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Louis Faurer's photographs show the great variety of the city's human face.
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Louis Faurer's eye is on the pulse [of New York City] - the lonely "Times-Square people" for whom Faurer felt a deep sympathy.
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Louis Faurer experimented with blur, grain, double exposures, sandwiched negatives, reflections, slow film speeds, and low lighting.
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In 1984, while running to catch a New York city bus, Louis Faurer was struck by a car and seriously injured.