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.
Louis Stettner took this picture on his way back to the United States, after spending several years in Paris studying photography and exhibiting his work. The man and two children on the deck of a…
This medal was issued in the Netherlands to commemorate the repeal of the 1745 expulsion of the Jewish community of Prague. Responding to appeals from foreign leaders, Maria Theresa (1717–1780), the…