| Dates: | 1916, 28 August - 2001, 2 March | | Born: | US, PA, Philadelphia | | Died: | US, NY, New York | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
American photographer.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
A photographer’s photographer who expanded the small camera aesthetic to reflect the energy of New York and Philadelphia street life. Although Faurer worked as a fashion photographer for nearly thirty years and is not widely known by the public, his psychologically charged and socially aware inner-city images were a major influence in the post-war New York street-photography movement. Faurer’s soulful black and white photographs, full of shadows and silhouettes, integrated the visual code of film noir with irony and juxtaposition to represent the instability of the rapidly shifting urban environment.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Tucker, Anne Wilkes et al., 2002, Louis Faurer, (London: Merrell, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) [Δ]
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