Source
Louis Faurer
Citation
Wikipedia contributors. “Louis Faurer.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed 2026-05-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Faurer
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Pointer-tier source for day-month-level birth/death tokens, career narrative, and FoM inclusion statement for Louis Faurer. Per CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is a pointer only.
Key excerpts (verbatim, fetched 2026-05-19)
- “August 28, 1916” — birth date
- “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania” — birthplace
- “March 2, 2001” — death date
- “New York City” — death place
- “candid street photographer”
- Fashion photography for “Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Life”
- “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. Steichen included this work in the Museum of Modern Art’s traveling exhibition ‘The Family of Man’ (1955), which reached 9 million visitors worldwide.”
- “A serious accident in 1984 ended his photographic practice.”
- Taught at “Parsons School of Design and Yale University”
Notes
- Birth date August 28, 1916 / death date March 2, 2001 are corroborated at city level by the SFMOMA artist page (src-sfmoma-louis-faurer-archive, fetched 2026-05-19): “1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — 2001, New York, New York.” The day-month tokens remain at pointer-only status.
- The San Gennaro Festival anecdote is reported by Wikipedia and has not been corroborated this round against a primary Tier-1 source. The FoM plate connection is separately anchored at the plate level via the MoMA Master Checklist.
- The third Faurer plate (photo-0262, checklist #273) carries a LIFE publication credit; the first two (#23, #25) do not. Wikipedia’s description of the included photograph as the 1950 San Gennaro image is consistent with but cannot be confirmed to correspond to a specific numbered plate without a caption-level primary source.
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