Source

Louis Faurer, 84, Photographer Of Lonely, Poetic New York, Dies


Citation

Kimmelman, Michael. “Louis Faurer, 84, Photographer Of Lonely, Poetic New York, Dies.” The New York Times, March 2001. Obituary.

Relevance

Named-author obituary of record for Louis Faurer (1916–2001), the New York School photographer whose prints appear at plates #23 and #25 of The Family of Man (Lovers). Source for the biographical dates in pher-louis-faurer.

Key excerpts / pages

  • Birth: August 28, 1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Death: March 2, 2001, New York City.
  • Career summary situates Faurer in the New York School circle around Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and William Klein; notes his fashion-magazine commercial work (Junior Bazaar, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue) and his 1977 rediscovery in the Faurer: Photographs from Philadelphia and New York retrospective.

Notes

  • Perspective: journalistic / biographical.
  • Re-verification 2026-04-24 (issue #9): NYT archive URL not directly fetchable (403, paywall); Wayback not attempted for this specific URL in this round. No alternative source was fetched for Faurer this round. Flagged verified: false pending Chrome-session verification or a Tier-1 museum-collection replacement.
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