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Louis Faurer

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American photographer (1916-2001)

United StatesArtistsLived 1916 to 2001 · aged 84
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Louis Faurer was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who...

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1979Guggenheim Fellowship

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Louis Faurer was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions In and Out of Focus (1948) and The Family of Man (1955).

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United States
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1916 to 2001 · aged 84
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6 languages

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