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Orend Karl - Louis Stettner - Hardcover
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Description: A major new monograph on the American photographer Louis Stettner (1922 2016) published to accompany the largest retrospective on his work to date. Brooklyn - born Louis Stettner (1922 2016) created thousands of images over the course of a career that spanned almost eighty years. Acquiring his first camera as a young teenager he quickly made a name for himself at New York's famous Photo League where he formed friendships with Sid Grossman and Weegee. He served as a combat photographer in World War II and the experience of fighting fascism left him with a lasting belief in the fundamental humanity of the common man. After the war Stettner arrived in Paris in 1947, where he stayed for five years. During this time he forged a lasting relationship with Brassa the city and its people. Stettner's work defies categorization containing elements of both the New York street photography aesthetic and the lyrical humanism of the French tradition. A lifelong Marxist Stettner celebrated the working class and was inspired by his reading of Walt Whitman and the inner humanity that constantly drew him to the lives of ordinary men and women. For all its diversity however Stettner's work is thematically consistent: he sought out beauty in common people and their everyday life. Accompanying the largest retrospective on Stettner's work to date this substantial monograph at last gives his work the recognition it deserves. Essays by David Campany James Iffland Karl Orend and Sally Martin Katz chart Stettner's work chronologically from his early days in New York and Paris through to his later use of colour photography to his final meditations on the landscape of Les Alpilles. Showcasing more than 150 photographs spanning his entire career the book also includes previously unpublished images and some of his hitherto almost unknown colour work as well as a selection of Stettner's writings. Accompanies the travelling exhibition of the same name which showed at Mapfre Madrid from June to August 2023, and is at Mapfre Barcelona from June to September 2024.
Title: Louis Stettner
Author(s): Orend Karl
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500028544
Pages: 348 Pages, 200 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 9/10/2024
Category: Individual Photographers
Description: A major new monograph on the American photographer Louis Stettner (1922 2016) published to accompany the largest retrospective on his work to date. Brooklyn - born Louis Stettner (1922 2016) created thousands of images over the course of a career that spanned almost eighty years. Acquiring his first camera as a young teenager he quickly made a name for himself at New York's famous Photo League where he formed friendships with Sid Grossman and Weegee. He served as a combat photographer in World War II and the experience of fighting fascism left him with a lasting belief in the fundamental humanity of the common man. After the war Stettner arrived in Paris in 1947, where he stayed for five years. During this time he forged a lasting relationship with Brassa the city and its people. Stettner's work defies categorization containing elements of both the New York street photography aesthetic and the lyrical humanism of the French tradition. A lifelong Marxist Stettner celebrated the working class and was inspired by his reading of Walt Whitman and the inner humanity that constantly drew him to the lives of ordinary men and women. For all its diversity however Stettner's work is thematically consistent: he sought out beauty in common people and their everyday life. Accompanying the largest retrospective on Stettner's work to date this substantial monograph at last gives his work the recognition it deserves. Essays by David Campany James Iffland Karl Orend and Sally Martin Katz chart Stettner's work chronologically from his early days in New York and Paris through to his later use of colour photography to his final meditations on the landscape of Les Alpilles. Showcasing more than 150 photographs spanning his entire career the book also includes previously unpublished images and some of his hitherto almost unknown colour work as well as a selection of Stettner's writings. Accompanies the travelling exhibition of the same name which showed at Mapfre Madrid from June to August 2023, and is at Mapfre Barcelona from June to September 2024.
Title: Louis Stettner
Author(s): Orend Karl
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500028544
Pages: 348 Pages, 200 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 9/10/2024
Category: Individual Photographers
