Louis Stettner - Hardcover

Katz, Sally Martin; Campany, David; Orend, Karl; Iffland, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500028540 ISBN 13: 9780500028544

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2024

Synopsis

An authoritative, full-career retrospective of Louis Stettner, the great twentieth-century American photographer, reproducing his finest works in one stunning volume.

This volume brings together the most important photographs from the long career of Louis Stettner. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1922, Stettner's life would span nearly a century, his work reflecting the unique vision of one of the twentieth-century's master photographers.

Organized chronologically, Louis Stettner presents approximately 190 photographs from Stettner’s career, featuring his iconic images of New York and Paris; the architecture of urban wonders such as Penn Station, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the New York City subway; as well as candid and empathetic street photographs of the people who inhabit these metropolitan centers.

While celebrated for his black-and-white works, the book also includes Stettner's works in color, many previously unpublished and unknown. The authors investigate the influence of his experiences as a photographer in World War II on his life and work. They also explore his experience with the celebrated Photo League cooperative and his relationships with photographers such as Weegee, Sid Grossman, Ruth Orkin, and Berenice Abbott. The result is a definitive book on Stettner's photography―making the work of the great lensman available to generations of readers.

200 color and black-and-white illustrations

About this title

About the Authors

Sally Martin Katz is curatorial assistant of photography at SFMOMA and a PhD candidate in art history at the Université Paris | Panthéon-Sorbonne, focusing on the history of photography.

David Campany is creative director of the International Center of Photography in New York City, and a prolific writer on photography. His many books include Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation, Louis Stettner, and Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, among others.

Karl Orend is an author and editor, and the founder and director of Alyscamps Press. He was manager of Shakespeare & Company in Paris for ten years, and is a leading authority on Henry Miller, as well as a translator of several classics of surrealism including work by André Breton, Paul Eluard, and Man Ray.

James Iffland is emeritus professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Boston University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500028540
• ISBN 13: 9780500028544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348