Artworks by Louis Faurer at Feldschuh Gallery on artnet

Louis Faurer

New York City, 1947

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New York, New York, 1947

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1916: Born in Philadelphia, PA
1937 - 1940: Attended Philadelphia’s School of Commercial Art and Lettering
1937: Bought his first camera; won a weekly photography contest in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger
1948: Embarked on a career as a fashion photographer, after publishing his first fashion photo in an issue of Junior Bazaar
1959: First solo show was held at Helen Gee’s Limelight Gallery in New York City
1960: Worked as a movie stills photographer in Hollywood
1969 - 1974: Lived and worked abroad, mostly in Paris
1975: Returned to the United States permanently
1978: Awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant
1979: Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
1981: Awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant
1982: Awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant
1984: Stopped photographing completely after being struck by a car while running to catch a city bus and seriously injured
2001: Died on March 2 in New York, NY

2010: Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2009: Track Artwork Factory, Paris France (solo)
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, NY
Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Yancey Richardson Gallery, Koln, Germany
Wien Museum, Wien, Austria
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
2008: Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, NY (solo)
Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
2005: Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France (solo)
2004: Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2003: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
2002: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany (solo)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (solo)
1959: Limelight Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1955: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1948: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

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