Louis Faurer
Plates contributed
The 3 plates attributed to Louis Faurer in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0020 | USA | Lovers | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0022 | USA | Lovers | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0262 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Three plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-19): photo-0020 (#23 Lovers, USA, 18 x 36 cm), photo-0022 (#25 Lovers, USA, 12 x 18 cm), photo-0262 (#273 Ring Around the Rosy, USA, LIFE, 18 x 13 3/4 cm). OCR at #273 rendered ‘Fsurer’ — corrected to Faurer per prior cleanly-printed entries. Plates #23 and #25 carry no publication credit; #273 carries LIFE. Checklist nationality: American. Born August 28, 1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died March 2, 2001, New York City — city-level anchors corroborated by src-sfmoma-louis-faurer-archive (fetched 2026-05-19: ‘1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — 2001, New York, New York’) and src-icp-louis-faurer-archive (fetched 2026-05-19). Day-month tokens from src-wikipedia-faurer-pointer (fetched 2026-05-19) at pointer-tier only. New York School photographer; commercial / fashion work for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Life; serious accident 1984 ended practice. Wikipedia FoM anecdote: ‘One of Faurer’s 1950 photographs from the San Gennaro Festival featuring Robert Frank and his wife Mary attracted the attention of curator Edward Steichen’ (src-wikipedia-faurer-pointer) — anecdote not corroborated at Tier-1 this round; FoM plate connection anchored independently via MoMA Master Checklist. Research file: research/photographers/louis-faurer.md
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/louis-faurer
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