Photographer Profile ~ Louis Faurer

Louis Faurer (1916 –  2001) was an American fashion photographer and a master of candid or street photography. A quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition of his best-known contemporaries, 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).

Silent Saleman

Comb Over, NYC, 1949

Looking Up At RCA Building: New York, 1949.

NYC, 1971

El Station, 53rd Street and Third Avenue, 1946.

Staten Island Ferry, 1946.

Skywriting, New York City, 1950.

Ideal Cinema , New York City, 1948.

 
Arc of Mirrors, Philadelphia, 1940

15th and Market Street, Philadelphia, 1938.

Accordionist: NY, 1948.

Father and Son in Times Square: NY, 1948. 

 Penn station, New York City, 1948

Globe Theater, New York City, 1947.

Ritz Carlton, 1948

Madison Avenue Construction Site, 1949.

James Joyce on the IRT, 1968.

Louis Faurer, Paris, 1960

Bowing for the Vogue Collections: Paris, 1972.

Times Square, NY, 1949

NYC 1971

Market Street, Philadelphia, 1944 by Louis Faurer

Photographer Profile ~ William Eggleston

William J. Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennesse, but grew up in the small Mississippi town of Sumner. He became known as "the father of color photography" for his striking photos of people, events and landscapes in the South.

Although he had been been a professional photographer for several years in the South, it wasn't until a visit to New York City in 1967 that Eggleston became known outside that area, when the curator of the Museum of Modern Art saw a collection of Eggleston's slides and was so taken with them that several years later he arranged an exhibition of Eggleston's work at the MoMA--the first individual exhibition of color photography in that institution's history--and it helped make Eggleston a household name in the art world. It wasn't long before his photos were exhibited abroad to great acclaim. He won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 1988, the Gold Medal for Photography from the National Arts Club in 2003 and was awarded the Getty Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography in 2004.

Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's book, The Decisive Moment. Eggleston later recalled that the book was "the first serious book I found, from many awful books...I didn't understand it a bit, and then it sank in, and I realized, my God, this is a great one.”

“Eggleston’s spare and richly hued pictures  

have cast a spell on everyone from Sofia Coppola, David Lynch, and Larry Clark to Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Juergen Teller.”

~ Style.com

"... the commonplace 

becomes

 resplendent"

 ~ Film Maker Michael Almereyda 

on Eggleston's work

see another interview with Eggleston here

The Contax G2 that is used by William Eggleston. He used 90mm, 45mm and 35mm lenses.