Louis stettner

Mr. Stettner, who considered the two cities his “spiritual mothers,” chronicled the poetry of daily life, with his subjects unaware of his presence.

Inscription: inscribed and signed in pencil, recto, sideways in margin of print at right edge: "Times Square, Broadway M.P. T. 1954 P. 1976-76 Louis Stettner"; inscribed in pencil in artist's hand, recto, LR: " 1/2"

Louis Stettner, Avenue de Chatillon, Paris, 1947

The American photographer’s connection with his countrymen shines through in portraits of people going about their daily lives

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Stettner's lens brought cities to life through his poignant imagery. You can explore his captivating portfolio at The Hulett Collection, a prominent Fine Art Photography Gallery situated on Cherry Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such masters…

Over the course of his eight-decade career, Louis Stettner created a singular approach to photographing everyday life. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Stettner began working as a photographer in the 1930s and served in the U.S. Army in World War II before moving to Paris in 1947. There, he studied at the Institut des Hautes […]