Louis Faurer
Win, Place, and Show, 3rd Ave. El at 53rd St, New York, N.Y.

Win, Place, and Show, 3rd Ave. El at 53rd St, New York, N.Y.

© Estate of Louis Faurer

Win, Place, and Show, 3rd Ave. El at 53rd St, New York, N.Y.
Win, Place, and Show, 3rd Ave. El at 53rd St, New York, N.Y.
ArtistAmerican, 1916–2001
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Win, Place, and Show, 3rd Ave. El at 53rd St, New York, N.Y.
Date1947, printed 1981
(not assigned)New York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 × 9 1/8 in. (17.8 × 23.2 cm)
 Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins
Object number2014.935
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
DescriptionMagazine photographer Louis Faurer, best known for his fascination with street life in New York City, particularly on and around Broadway, is especially admired for his use of the distortions and disruptions caused by reflections and for his photographs that evoke the layered illusions of city life. In Win, Place, and Show, a figure is seen both through a glass divider and again, but magnified and darker, in a reflection that Faurer probably intensified in the darkroom.
Provenance[John Cleary Gallery, Houston]; purchased by Michael Marvins and Michele Marvins, Houston; given to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 4–July 5, 2015.

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