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Untitled, New York City (woman on subway)
1973 · Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
Image: 9 3/4 × 6 1/2 in. (24.8 × 16.5 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Louis Faurer
1916–2001
Photography
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None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
71
Works in Collection
91
Assets Indexed
9
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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New Standpoints: Photography, 1940�1955
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
About
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Louis Faurer was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions In and Out of Focus (1948) and The Family of Man (1955).
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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