These photographs make me think of that long gone time - the fifties in New York City. Faurer, with these images proves to be an extraordinary artist. His eye is on the pulse - the lonely Times-square people for whom Faurer felt a deep sympathy. Every photograph is witness to the compassion and obsession accompanying his life like a shadow. I am happy that these images survive while the world keeps changing.
~ Robert Frank
(1924 - 2019)
Letter from Robert Frank about Louis Faurer, déjà-vu, no. 16, spring 1994
Faurer’s New York reveals a fresh personality of the city I have never quite seen before. There is a quiet pulse here—caught in that mid-century moment poised between what was and what was to come. Even now, it is easy to feel alone in a great city, adrift in a sea of faces. Faurer seems to understand this.
I am captivated by this image. It feels like a perfect pause — perhaps the end of a city that was once quietly innocent, foreshadowing the hustle and bustle still to come.