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

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Artist Louis Faurer American, 1916–2001

CultureAmerican

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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

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Marvins Family Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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