Louis Faurer American, 1916-2001

Overview
Louis Faurer

After graduating in Philadelphia in 1934, Louis Faurer spent a few summers as a cartoonist in New Jersey. Fascinated by typography, he studied at the School of Commercial Art and Lettering in Philadelphia in 1937 and bought his first camera the same year. 

In the late 1940s, Faurer and several of his fellow Philadelphia artists opened studios in New York. He soon focused on fashion photography. In 1947, he joined the Junior Bazaar team (which later became part of Harper’s Bazaar). Faurer was a key member of the New York School of street photographers. During the 1950s, he abandoned his personal practice for his professional commissions. He died in 2001 in New York City. 

Works
Biography
Louis Faurer

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2016

Louis Faurer, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

2002

Louis Faurer Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1998

Louis Faurer : USA, Zentrum für Fotographie, Berlin

1994

Louis Faurer : Photographs, Gallery International, Tokyo

1992

Louis Faurer, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris

1990

Louis Faurer, espace Colbert de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

1981

Louis Faurer, Art Gallery of University of Maryland, MD

1977

Louis Faurer, Malborough Gallery, New York

1959

Louis Faurer, Limelight Gallery, New York

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1991

Appearances : Fashion Photography Since 1945, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1958

Photographs from the Museum Collection, MoMA, New York

1955

The Family of Man, MoMA, New York

1952

Then an Now, MoMA, New York

1950

Photography, Mid-century, LACMA, Los Angeles

51 American Photographers, MoMA, New York

1948

In and Out of Focus, MoMA, New York

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