Creator Bio
Louis Stettner
1922–2016
American-born Louis Stettner was known for his photographs of everyday life in New York and Paris. After serving as an army combat photographer during World War II, he taught at the Photo League in New York, organizing on its behalf the first New York exhibition of postwar French photography, in 1947. Stettner also sculpted, painted, and worked in mixed media, painting on his own photographs. His work found recognition in galleries and museums around the world and was collected in numerous exhibitions.
Content by Louis Stettner
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Coming to America
In this photograph, Holocaust survivors sit on the deck of a ship heading to the United States.
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Garment Worker, New Jersey
© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.