Garment Worker, New Jersey

Louis Stettner

1975

Photograph of elderly woman with glasses framed by spools of thread.
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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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