Louis Faurer

Louis Faurer

Louis Faurer

American, 1916–2001
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Death placeNew York City, New York, United States
Birth placePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
BiographyAmerican, born August 28, 1916, Philadelphia, PA, died March 2, 2001, New York, New York

Louis Faurer is probably best known for his 1950 black-on-black picture of a line of big, gleaming cars. But much of his best, psychologically charged work is of people. In an untitled picture taken in 1937 in Philadelphia, the trousers, jacket cuffs and cane of a seated man are in sharp focus, as are a box of pencils and a sign announcing "I am totally blind." Hurrying past him are the blurred figures of passers-by.

Faurer also worked as a fashion photographer from the 1940s to the late '70s for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Flair. In the 1970s and early '80s, Faurer received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and taught at various schools, including Yale University.
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