Louis Stettner
Louis Stettner American, 1922-2016
A writer, photographer, and teacher, Louis Stettner (born in Brooklyn) studied engineering at Princeton University (1940-42) and received a B.A. in photography and cinematography at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographique, Paris (1956). During a long career that began in the late 1940s, Stettner has worked as a freelance photographer for such publications as Time, Paris-Match, Du, Fortune, Réaltiés, and National Geographic and for various American and European commercial clients. He taught photography at Brooklyn College, Queensboro College, and Cooper Union, all in New York (1972-73), and at C. W. Post Center, Long Island University (1973-79).
Stettner was a longtime member of the Photo League in New York, and his personal work exhibits a straightforward, documentary approach. Taking people as his central theme, he has published several books and photographic portfolios, including Paris Street Stories (1949), Workers: 24 Photographs (1974), Women: Portfolio (1976), and Sous Le Ciel de Paris (1994). He has received fellowships from Yaddo (1956, 1957) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1974) and a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1973). Stettner lives in New York. M.M.