Louis Faurer (né le 28 août 1916 à Philadelphie, États-Unis - mort le 2 mars 2001 à New York) était un photographe américain qui se rendit célèbre dans les années 1940 et 1950, par ses photographies prises sur le vif dans les rues, ainsi que par ses photographies de mode. Il reste cependant peu connu du grand public malgré la reconnaissance de certains de ses contemporains, parmi eux Robert Frank, William Eggleston, et Edward Steichen (ici) qui ont intégré son travail aux expositions In and Out of Focus (1948) et The Family of Man (1955).
Louis Faurer est indiscutablement l'un des principaux représentants de la photographie américaine de l'après-guerre. Il cherchait ses sujets dans la banalité de la vie quotidienne, et a beaucoup photographié les gens dans les rues de Philadelphie et de New York. Il aimait particulièrement travailler à Times Square, un quartier de New York toujours en mouvement, point névralgique des activités de divertissement de la grande métropole, avec ses nombreux cinémas, théâtres et restaurants.
Il grandit à Philadelphia et montre très tôt ses aptitudes pour l'illustration. Il achète son premier appareil photo en 1937. Après quelques jobs comme technicien photographe, Faurer fait son chemin jusqu'à Manhattan et dans le monde de la photographie de la mode. Il se fait rapidement des contacts qui lui seront utiles: Robert Frank, avec qui il partage un laboratoire et studio photographiques, et rapidement également une amitié; Walker Evans qu'il a longtemps admiré et qui le présente à Alexander Liberman de Vogue. Faurer photographie pendant plus de vingt ans pour des magazines tels que Junior Bazaar, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Look, Life, Mademoiselle et Glamour. Il se plaint que son travail à Life comprend beaucoup trop de voyages et démissionne aux débuts des années 50. La plupart de ses tirages et négatifs de ses travaux de mode ont probablement été jetés car Faurer les stockait avec un ami et au départ de celui-ci a manqué de les réclamer.
Vente Bassenge Photography Auction | 19th - 21st Century Photography Bassenge Photography Auction 107
19th – 21st Century Photography with a Special section of 19th Century Photographs of India (G. Heil Collection)
Including photographs by:
Leopold Ahrendts | Leopoldi Alinari | James Anderson | Thomas Andrew | Dieter Appelt | Eugène Atget | Edouard-Denis Baldus | Georg Barker | Max Baur | Felice Beato | Bernd und Hilla Becher | Emil Bieber | Ilse Bing | Walter Bird | Oliver Boberg | Robert Bothner | Samuel Bourne | Bourne & Shepherd | Josef Breitenbach | Émile Brugsch | Jewgeni Chaldej | Lucien Clergue | Tommaso Cuccioni | Lala Deen Dayal | Maxime du Camp | Harold Edgerton | Walker Evans | Louis Faurer | Allen Frame | Robert Frank | Francis Frith | Vincenzo Galdi | Jean Théophile Geiser | Wilhelm von Gloeden
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Harry Callahan. "...Vente Enchères : « Photographies » par Artcurial Pour sa vente Photographie d'automne, Artcurial propose une collection américaine d'une cinquantaine de photos, qui couvre plusieurs décennies. Parmi les photographes représentés : Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Alfred Eisenstaadt, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, André Kertész ou Sebastiao Salgado...
Ed Ruscha: Swimming Pool, 1968
Color print, printed 1974 © Ed Ruscha
A cela s'ajoute une sélection de plus de 70 œuvres qui illustre une large palette de procédés photographiques et qui aborde des thèmes comme l'architecture, la nature, le corps humain et la relation entre l'homme et son environnement. Des épreuves rares d'époque p...Vente Friends Without A Border Presents 17th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction The highly anticipated 17th annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction will be presented on December 9 by Friends Without A Border, a non-profit organization that provides urgently needed medial care to children in Southeast Asia. The auction will feature more than 120 works by leading artists including Adam Fuss, Annie Leibovitz, Berenice Abbott, Bruce Davidson, Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe, Elliott Erwitt, Herb Ritts, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, Jeff Liao, Jerry Uelsmann, Joel Meyerowitz, Joel-Peter Witkin, Lee Friendlander, Louis Faurer, Ruth Orkin, Saul Leiter, Susan Meiselas, William Wegman, and many more. The online catalogue and auction lots can be viewed at www.fwabphotoauction.org. Online bidding starts Monday, November 24 at www.ibidmobile.net/fwab.
© Sean Perry, Early Spring, N...Vente Phillips announces highlights from its New York Spring Photographs sale
WORKS BY WILLIAM EGGLESTON, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, THOMAS DEMAND, ANDREAS GURKSY, NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, IRVING PENN, RICHARD AVEDON, CINDY SHERMAN, PETER BEARD AND DIANE ARBUS LEAD SALE OF IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS
AUCTION : 1 APRIL 2014, 10AM & 2PM
GENERAL VIEWING : 22– 31 March 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York – 6 March 2014 – Phillips is delighted to launch its Spring Photographs sale with an excellent array of photographs by many of the leading figures in the field.
« This season’s sale illustrates the continuous evolution of the field over the twentieth-century with a strong emphasis on contemporary culture. Major works by William Eggleston, Hiroshi Sugimoto and several alumni of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf outline some of the most t...Vente Vente aux enchères de photographies modernes et contemporaines le mercredi 30 Octobre à l'Hôtel Drouot
VIVIANE ESDERS, EXPERT - SVV YANN LE MOUEL
VENTE AUX ENCHERES – HOTEL DROUOT - PARIS MERCREDI 30 OCTOBRE 2013 - 14h - SALLE 4
Notre vente du Printemps 2013 a remporté un grand succès avec un produit total de 690.000 € frais compris. Les lots phares de cette vente : Bill Brandt de la série des « Nus » tirage d’époque signé 1953 a décuplé son estimation à 24.700 €. Robert Mapplethorpe « Chrysanthème » tirage d’époque signé de 1989 a triplé l’estimation haute à 32.200 €. Nick Brandt « Elephant in Dust » grand tirage signé de 2011 a atteint le prix de 27.260 €.
Notre prochaine vente aux enchères du 30 octobre 2013 rassemble 287 lots avec une estimation basse de 744.200 ...Vente «Photographies modernes et contemporaines»: vente aux enchères
Eugène Atget ouvre la vente de photographies avec quatre très beaux tirages albuminés dont un rare Nu de la série « Paris Pittoresque III » de 1921 (3 000-4 000 €). Un autre tirage de ce « Nu » figurait dans la Collection de Man Ray. Il est actuellement conservé à la George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
La sculpture très renommée de « Léda » de Constantin Brancusi, 1921, photographiée par l’auteur, est représentée par un tirage d’époque exceptionnel (15 000-20 000 €).
MAN RAY : Très rare ouvrage « Résurrection des mannequins » avec les mannequins réalisés par Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andr...Vente Sale - Phillips de Pury & Company
New York - Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming Photographs sale on Saturday 9 April 2011, to be held at its Park Avenue location.
“We are looking forward to bringing the Photographs preview to our flagship space at 57 Street and Park Avenue. The uptown location will be a fresh setting to showcase our exhibition, comprised of a diverse selection of classic and contemporary photographs to fulfill the needs of our international clientele.” Vanessa Kramer, Worldwide Director of Photographs.
Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #278, 1993, estimated at $200,000-$300,000, exemplifying the famed photographer’s poignant critiques of the fashion industry, juxtaposed by one of the most revered images i...Vente Artnet, Masters of Photography
ARTNET AUCTIONS: MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
artnet Auctions offers continuous online auctions of fine art, prints and photographs. Starting April 15, artnet Auctions will present 275 exquisite photographs by artists from Berenice Abbott to James Van Der Zee in a special sale that ends April 29th.
Leading the sale is an extraordinary group of photographs by f/64, a group of seven San Francisco artists known for their modernist images of natural forms and found objects. The magnificent gelatin silver print Dunes, Oceano 31SO, 1971 is one of 20 works by Edward Weston offered in this section (estimate: $25,000-$30,000). Other works by the f/64 include Two Callas, 1925, one of five floral prints by Imogen Cunningham (estimate: $2,000-$3,000) and Mandenhall Glacier, c.1935 by Brett Weston (estimate: $7,500-$8,...Vente Vente de préstige à l'occasion de paris photo : Photographie ancienne, moderne et contemporaine
SAMEDI 21 NOVEMBRE 2009 - MAITRE LE MOUEL - HOTEL DROUOT SALLE 16, 14H
Expositions publiques : vendredi 20 novembre 11h-18h et samedi 21 novembre 11h-12h
Catalogue : 15 euros
Le catalogue est consultable en ligne :
http://www.viviane-esders.com/prochaine_vente.htm
...Exposition «Window Dressing» Press Release -
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs is pleased to expand its exploration of the window as a motif in Window Dressing . . . Continued, a group exhibition of vintage and later prints by master 20th century photographers. New work joins a few favorites from the last exhibition.
© Louis Faurer, Accident, New York, c. 1948-1952
Harry Callahan, Chicago, 1948
© John Cohen, Tanager Gallery, Tenth Street, Lois Dodd in Window, 1959
...Exposition Louis Faurer, l'âme de Times Square C'est une exposition qui a la fragilité et la beauté des foules anonymes dans les grandes villes. Du 9 septembre au 18 décembre 2016, la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson met à l'honneur le photographe américain Louis Faurer. Le temps de (re)découvrir le travail d'un artiste méconnu.
« J’ai photographié presque chaque jour, et la lumière hypnotique du crépuscule me conduisait dans Times Square. Mon mode de vie était de photographier le soir dans le quartier et de développer et tirer mes photos dans la chambre noire de Robert Frank. Il s’exclamait « Whatta town, Whatta town ! »*. Mais quelle ville ! Quelle ville ! Louis Faurer s'en est emparé comme personne avant lui. S...Exposition Exposition : Louis Faurer à la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Du 9 septembre au 18 décembre 2016, la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson consacre une exposition au photographe américain Louis Faurer. Cette présentation est l’occasion de découvrir l’œuvre de l’artiste, qui n’a pas fait l’objet d’exposition en France, depuis 1992. Natif de Philadelphie, Louis Faurer (1916 - 2001) s’installe à New York en 1947, comme aspiré par la vie de Times Square, il y traque la solitude dans la foule, toujours à distance, sans pitié. Le reportage et le journalisme, ne l’intéressent guère, Faurer penche plutôt pour la fragilité des choses, l’inconscient révélé. Il accomplit un travail de commande remarqué pour des mag...Exposition Exposition : New-York Staff Picks IV New York – Staff Picks IV, an exhibition of photographs selected by the staff of Howard Greenberg Gallery, will be on view at the Gallery from December 11, 2014, through January 24, 2015.
An eclectic selection of images chosen by the entire gallery staff will include more than 80 well-known and little-known works by Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, William Gedney, Bedrich Grunzweig, Dave Heath, Consuelo Kanaga, James Karales, Saul Leiter, Leon Levinstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Marvin Newman, Ruth Orkin, W. Eugene Smith, Iwao Yamawaki, Weegee, and many others.
Anonymous, Interior of Modern Steel Subway Car used on the IND Division, Early 1950
Howard Greenberg Gallery has an expansive and diverse inventory, with well over 30,000 photographs. The Gallery staff, comprised of 17 individuals with...Exposition Exposition : « Autoportraits » En retournant son objectif sur sa personne, le photographe bouleverse les codes : il peut dès lors voir son appareil comme un pistolet, et la prise de vue comme un défi.
A travers une quarantaine de tirages modernes et contemporains, l’exposition explore la photogénie intense de cet instant de vérité. Berenice Abbott, Paul Keetman, Val Telberg privilégient une approche expérimentale du médium photographique. Lucien Hervé, Arnold Newman, Vivian Maier s’approprient le miroir déjà si présent dans l’autoportrait pictural. À partir de son patronyme familial, Ezra Nahmad compose une autobiographie. Choï, Arno Minkkinen, Wols étudient les possibilités expressives de leurs corps et de leurs visages. Pour Rodolf Hervé, atteint d’une maladie, l’autoportrait est cat...Exposition Hail Traveler! The Photographer as Tourist, and the Tourist as Subject, at Rick Wester Fine Art
«Being a tourist meant being an outsider, and inexperienced member of the public. Isolated from the commonplace world by tour buses and guides, the modern tourist is protected from foreign-ness, but in the old days we wanted to pass as natives, if only to avoid being overcharged by street vendors and taxi drivers.»
— J.B. Jackson, The Necessity for Ruins
New York, NY - Inspired by the writings of the late J. B. Jackson, Hail Traveler! The Photographer as Tourist, and the Tourist as Subject at Rick Wester Fine Art features photographs focusing on the itinerant essence of photography. Works included speak to Jackson's definition by exposing the tourist that resides in every photographer, and the tourist as a perennial target for the lens.
J.B. Jackson (1909-1996), a professor of landscape...Exposition American Photography From Berenice Abbott to Alec Soth - Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß
The 40 works range from early black and white photographs to the classic icons of American color photography.
A number of great photographers played a large role in forming and defining the American Myth. The discovery of everyday aspects of American life was decisive in this: cities and symbols, cars, signs, billboards, advertising, telephone poles, parking lots and barbershops.
People are a second aspect of the wide-ranging exhibition, from the years of the Great Depression to impressive portraits of celebrities.
The comparison of almost a century of American photographs results in an interesting structure of similarities and contrasts, which are balanced through the selective choice of images.
The exhibition begins with works of the early 20th century by Paul Strand and Berenice Abbott, who both show ...Exposition Street Photography Selected Works from Six Decades
In the context of the 4th European Month of Photography Berlin, which is presented for the first time as a themed event, the Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß is pleased to announce the exhibition “Street Photography. Selected Works from Six Decades”.
The exhibition centers around vintage prints which document life on the streets through the decades. This wide overview begins in Europe in the early 1930s with selected black and white photographs from Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Cartier-Bresson and others.
American Street Photography of the 1940s to the 1970s is represented by works from Harry Callahan, Louis Fauer, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank, Leon Levinstein, Ray K. Metzker, Erika Stone and Weegee. The exhibition closes with color prints of iconic examples of Street Photography, such as ...Exposition New York Photographs - Sexy and the City Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Sexy and the City, a summer group show on view from Thursday, July 9, through Friday, August 28, 2009.
Sexy and the City shows the alluring, romantic and sometimes scandalous side of New York's people and places. Capturing private, intimate moments and blatant displays of sexuality, these photographs span the decades from the 1940s to the present day, taken in landmark locations like the Brooklyn Bridge and in the quiet, out-of-the-way corners of the city.
From Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic image of a kissing couple in Times Square on V-J Day, 1945, to Nan Goldin's drag queen on an anonymous New York street in the 1990s, from Garry Winogrand's topless woman surrounded by a crowd in Central Park to the homosexual couples photographed by Alvin Baltr...Exposition FASHION 9 decades of fashion photography
Gallery Camera Work in Berlin presents from September 20th until November 15th an exhibition of fashion photography of the 20th and 21st centuries. This group exhibition provides a representative overview of the development of fashion photography from its beginnings in the 1920s to the present time. With over 250 works of a total of 65 photographers - many of which are vintages - one can trace the different trends of fashion photography.
The spectrum of the photographs on display ranges from the sometimes classic compositions of an Edward Steichen to the experimental photographs of Man Ray, from the sexual revolution to the resulting emancipation of women as shown for example by Helmut Newton, from the cool elegance of the 1990s - influenced by Peter Lindbergh - to the highly imaginative works of a Tim Walker. On...Exposition The New York School Alexei Brodovitch - Diane Arbus - Lee Friedlander - Lisette Model - Louis Faurer - Richard Avedon - Robert Frank - Sid Grossman - Ted Croner - Weegee - William Klein
Between the late 1930s and the early 1960s a group of young photographers living and working in New York City redefined street photography.
This group of artists became known as The New York School.
These photographers documented the post war energy and exotic chaos of New York City as it evolved from the crisis years of the Great
Depression and the Second World War through to the social turbulence of the early seventies. Most of them worked on magazines but it was their personal work that stood them apart.
They captured the choreography of the city from the sidewalks of downtown, to the intensity of Times Square, the isolation and elegance of the arc...Modifier l'image