“Brassai showed me that it was possible to find something significant in photography subjects in everyday life doing ordinary things by interpreting them in your own way and with your own personal vision”
~ Louis Stettner
(1922-2016)
Louis Stettner was a celebrated American photographer known for his iconic images of Paris and New York, where he documented the evolving architecture, culture, and daily life for over 60 years. Born in Brooklyn, he studied and later taught at the Photo League before moving to Paris after World War II, earning a degree in Photography and Cinema from Paris University. Stettner’s work is marked by its natural, humanistic quality—capturing the dignity of everyday life, particularly among the working class—with a sensitivity that sets his archive of thousands of images apart as an invaluable record of both cities. Though best known for his street photography, he also explored still lifes, landscapes, and abstract painting and sculpture.
