Louis Stettner

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

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
20 October 2024

Individual photographers

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 Brassaï, 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 Showcasing more than 150 photographs spanning his entire career, the book also includes previously unpublished images and some of his hitherto almost unknown colour work, as well as a selection of Stettner's writings.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.

By: David Campany, James Iffland, Sally Martin Katz, Karl Orend
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 2.120kg
ISBN: 9780500028544
ISBN 10: 0500028540
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 20 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sally Martin Katz is Curatorial Assistant of Photography at SFMOMA and Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. David Campany is a curator, writer and educator, based in London. His previous books include Walker Evans: The Magazine Work, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip and A Handful of Dust, each of which was accompanied by an exhibition. Awards received by Campany include the ICP Infinity Award and The Kraszna-Kraus Book Award. James Iffland is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at Boston University. Karl Orend is a publisher, translator and historian.

Reviews for Louis Stettner

Dazzling.-- ""Air Mail"" (10/5/2024 12:00:00 AM) Louis Stettner's classic photographs capture everyday people in New York and Paris.-- ""PetaPixel"" (9/20/2024 12:00:00 AM)

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