Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 28, 1916.
Attended School of Commercial Art and Lettering, Phila-
delphia, 1934–37. Civilian Photographer, U.S. Signal
Corps, Philadelphia, 1941–45; commercial photographer
forFlair, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Junior Bazaar, Seven-
teen, Mademoiselle, Look,Vogue, 1946–1967; photographs
illustrate Truman Capote’s book,Local Color, 1950; on-set
photographer for the filmsWalk on the Wild SideandFive
Finger Exercise, 1960. Instructor at Parsons School of
Design, New York, 1975–1983; lectured at State Univer-
sity of New York, Stockton State College, New Jersey, and
the University of Maryland, College Park, 1981; lectured
at Yale University, New Haven and University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, 1983; taught Thesis Class in Photography
at the School of Visual Arts, New York, 1985–86. Creative
Artists Public Service Fellowship Grant, New York State
Council for the Arts, 1977–78; National Endowment for
the Arts Grant, 1978; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Fellowship, 1979. Died in New York, New York, March 2,
2001.
Individual Exhibitions
1959 Louis Faurer: Photographs; Limelight Gallery; New
York, New York
1977 Louis Faurer: Photographs, 1937–1966; Marlborough
Gallery; New York, New York
1981 Louis Faurer: Photographs from Philadelphia and New
York; Art Gallery, University of Maryland; College
Park, Maryland
Louis Faurer: Photographs; Light Gallery; New York,
New York
1986 Louis Faurer: Photographs; Davison Art Center,
Wesleyan University; Middletown, Connecticut
1987 Louis Faurer: Vintage Photographs; Laurence Miller
Gallery; New York, New York
1990 Louis Faurer; Espace Colbert, Bibliothe`que nationale;
Paris, France
Louis Faurer; Kathleen Ewing Gallery; Washington,
D.C.
1991 Louis Faurer: Photographs; Zelda Cheatle Gallery,
London
1992 Louis Faurer; Centre nationale de la photographie,
Palais de Tokyo; Paris, France
1994 Louis Faurer: Photographs; Photo Gallery Interna-
tional; Tokyo, Japan
1998 Louis Faurer, USA; Zentrum fu ̈r Fotograpfie; Berlin,
Germany
1999 Louis Faurer; Casa dos Crivos, Encontros de Imagem,
Association de Fotografia e Cinemade; Braga, Portugal
2002 Louis Faurer Retrospective; Museum of Fine Arts;
Houston, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
1948 In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today’s Photogra-
phers; Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York
1950 Photography, Mid-Century; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; Los Angeles, California
Photographs by 15 American Photographers; Museum
of Modern Art; New York, New York
1951 Abstraction in Photography; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1952 Then and Now; Museum of Modern Art; New York,
New York
1955 The Family of Man; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1958 Photographs from the Museum Collection; Museum of
Modern Art; New York, New York
1983 Phototypes: The Development of Photography in New
York City; Whitney Museum of American Art, Down-
town Branch; New York, New York
1984 Automobile and Culture; Museum of Contemporary
Art; Los Angeles, California
1985 The New York School, 1935–1963: Part I; Part II; Part
III; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C.
1989 Night Light: A Survey of 20th Century Night Photo-
graphy, An Exhibition From the Hallmark Photographic
Collection;Nelson-Atkins Museum; Kansas City, Mis-
souri
1991 Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945; Vic-
toria and Albert Museum; London, England
1995 American Photography 1890-1965; Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin; Berlin, Germany
1999 The American Century: Art & Culture 1900–2000, Part
I, 1900-1950; Whitney Museum of American Art; New
York, New York
2002 Visions from America: Photographs from Whitney
Museum of American Art 1940-2001; Whitney Museum
of American Art; New York, New YorkSelected Works
Market St.,Philadelphia, PA, 1937
Eddie, New York, NY, 1948
5th Ave., New York, N.Y. , c. 1948
New York, N.Y., 1948
Broadway, New York, N.Y., 1949–1950
Accident, 1949-52
Family Time Square, 1949–1950
Barnum & Bailey Circus Performers, Madison Square Gar-
den, 1950Further Reading
Harrison, Martin, and Stuart Alexander.Louis Faurer. Col-
lection Photo Poche, Paris: Centre national de la photo-
graphie, 1992.
Liebman, Lisa. ‘‘People and Ideas: Louis Faurer.’’Aper-
ture, 88 (1982).
Livingston, Jane. The New York School: Photographs,
1936–1963. New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang,
Inc., 1992.
Tonelli, Edith A., and John Gossage, eds.Louis Faurer:
Photographs from Philadelphia and New York. College
Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Art Gallery,
1981.
Tucker, Anne Wilkes.Louis Faurer. London: Merrel, 2002.FAURER, LOUIS