Louis Stettner

The Centre Pompidou is devoting a retrospective to Louis Stettner, paying tribute to one of the last great American photographers of his generation still working today.

Lac, État de New York, États-Unis 1952 Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Don de l’artiste en 2015 ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner

The Centre Pompidou is devoting a retrospective to the photographer Louis Stettner with a hundred-odd works, paying tribute to one of the last great American photographers of his generation still working today.

Blanchisseuse devant sa boutique, Paris, France 1949 Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Achat en 2013 ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner — **Top:** Louis Stettner, *Lac*, État de New York, États-Unis, 1952. Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Don de l’artiste en 2015 ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner **Above:** Louis Stettner, *Blanchisseuse devant sa boutique*, Paris, France, 1949. Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Achat en 2013 ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner

The exhibition highlights eight decades of a varied, powerful and lyrical body of work.  A major figure of the history of photography, Stettner shows us the poetic post-war Paris, the animated New York of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, and the atmospheric quality  of urban scenes, where he captured people at work with extraordinary perception.  Born in 1922, Louis Stettner took to photography in the Thirties. In the decades after the war, he made frequent trips between France and America.

Louis Stettner, Aubervilliers, France 1947 Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris. Achat en 2013 ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner — Louis Stettner, *Aubervilliers*, France 1947. Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris. Achat en 2013 ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner

Wishing for the Centre Pompidou to become the reference location for his work,  Louis Stettner recently donated an exceptional group of hundred and four prints. Through the generosity of Hervé and Etty Jauffret, this donation is augmented with  the acquisition of seven of the artist’s important vintage prints, and the extraordinary dummy of Pepe & Tony, a 1956 book project that was never published.

Louis Stettner, *Brooklyn Promenade*, New York, États-Unis, 1954. Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Don de Hervé et Etty Jauffret en 2015. ©Centre Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP ©Louis Stettner

until 12 September 2016
Louis Stettner. Here There
curated by Clément Chéroux
Centre Pompidou
46 Rue Beaubourg, Paris

Louis Stettner

The Centre Pompidou is devoting a retrospective to Louis Stettner, paying tribute to one of the last great American photographers of his generation still working today.

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