Coming to America

Louis Stettner

1951

Photograph of man in a skullcap kneeling next to a child sitting in a wooden chair on boat deck, gazing into the distance to the left of the viewer.
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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.

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