Louis Stettner Art
American, 1922-2016
Louis Stettner was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work included streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its humanity and capturing the life and reality of the people and streets. Starting in 1947, Stettner photographed the changes in the people, culture and architecture of both cities. He continued to photograph New York and Paris up until his death.
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Artist: Louis Stettner
Parking Lot, Volendam, Holland
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
Parking Lot, Volendam, Holland, 1962
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil on mount recto
Gelatin silver print
16x20" affixed to 20x26" mount...
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Couple Along the Quai
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
Couple Along the Quai, 1950
Signed in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20"
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Crossing the Seine" Mother and Child, Paris
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
"Crossing the Seine" Mother and Child, Paris, 1950
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16"
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
On the Dutch Ferry
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
On the Dutch Ferry, 1959
Signed in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20"
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York, 1954
Signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso. Embossed stamp on recto
Gelatin silver print
16 x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
After Labor Day, Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
After Labor Day, Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York, 1969
Signed and dated in pencil on sheet verso
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20"
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Windshield Upstate NY
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
Windshield Upstate NY, 1954
Signed in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20"
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boulevard de Clichy
By Louis Stettner
Located in Tulsa, OK
Louis Stettner
Boulevard de Clichy, 1951
Signed in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20"
Category
Mid-20th Century Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rare Modernist Oil Painting Line Drawing Nude Man Louis Stettner
By Louis Stettner
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed and Dated Modern Line Drawing Oil Painting of Nude Man.
Louis Stettner (November 7, 1922 – October 13, 2016) was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work included streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its humanity and capturing the life and reality of the people and streets. Starting in 1947, Stettner photographed the changes in the people, culture, and architecture of both cities. Stettner also spent significant time sculpting and painting, as well as mixing his work and “painting” on some of his photographic images. He continued to photograph New York and Paris up until his death.
Louis Stettner was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Austrian immigrant parents where he was one of four children. His father was a cabinet maker, and Louis learned the trade when young, using the money he earned to support his growing love of photography. He decides to be a photographer after seeing photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Weegee. He was given a box camera as a child, and his love affair with photography began. His family went on trips to Manhattan and visited museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where his love of art began.
At 18, in 1940, Stettner enlisted in the United States army and became a combat photographer in Europe for the Signal Corps. After a brief stint in Europe he was sent to New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan. Back from the war he joined the Photo League in New York. Through the Photo League’s exhibits, Stettner was further exposed to the work of Weegee, Edward Weston, and Lewis Hine. Stettner visited Paris in 1946 and in 1947 moved there. From 1947 to 1949 he studied at the "Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques" in Paris and received a Bachelor of Arts in Photography & Cinema. He went back and forth between New York and Paris for almost two decades and finally settled permanently in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in 1990. Stettner still frequently returned to New York.
Stettner's professional work in Paris began with capturing life in the post-war recovery. He captured the everyday lives of his subjects. In the tradition of the Photo League, he wanted to investigate the bonds that connect people to one another. In 1947 he was asked by the same Photo League to organize an exhibition of French photographers in New York. He gathered the works of some of the greatest photographers of the era, including Robert Doisneau, Brassaï, Edouard Boubat, Izis Bidermanas, and Willy Ronis. The show was a big success and was largely reviewed in the annual issue of U.S. Camera. Stettner had begun a series of regular meetings with Brassaï who was a great mentor and had significant influence on his work. In 1949, Stettner had his first exhibition at the "Salon des Indépendants" at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
In 1951 his work was included in the famous Subjektive Fotografie exhibition in Germany. During the 1950s he free-lanced for Time magazine, Life, Fortune, and Du (Germany). While in Paris he reconnected with Paul Strand, who had also left New York because of the political intolerance of the McCarthy era—Strand had been a founder of the Photo League that would be blacklisted and then banned during those years.
In the 1970s Stettner spent more time in New York City, where he taught at Brooklyn College, Queens College, and Cooper Union.
In his own social realist work, Stettner focused on documenting the lives of the working class in both Paris and New York. He felt that the cities belong to the people who live there, not to tourists or visitors. His upbringing caused him to take great care in capturing the simple human dignity of the working class. He also captured noteworthy architectural images of both cities, including bridges, buildings, and monuments. Stettner produced well-known silver gelatin prints in fine images, including: Aubervilliers, Brooklyn Promenade...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Batter Park
By Louis Stettner
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed "AP," verso
Hand-painted Cibachrome (Unique)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Louis Stettner Art
Materials
C Print
Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York
By Louis Stettner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York
1954
Gelatin Silver print
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso. Embossed artist stamp on recto.
16 x 2...
Category
1950s Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Aubervilliers
By Louis Stettner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed by artist
Category
1950s Louis Stettner Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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