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Item Number: 135460
Title: LOUIS STETTNER : Penn Station, New York
Author: Stetter, Louis ; Adam Gopnik
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500544501
Description: New York: Thames and Hudson, 2015. 29cm., hardcover, 112pp., 65 b&w illus. Summary: Louis Stettner is one of the last living members of the avant-garde New York Schoolof photography of the 1950s, which challenged many of the long-accepted foundationsof art form. His Penn Station series of the late 1950s represents some of hismost important work, gathered here in a single form for the first time. The series isless a portrait of the building than a study of people at once in transit and insuspension. The pivotal moment for Stettner occurred in 1957, the year before he began theseries in earnest. He had taken a photograph of a girl in a party dress stepping fromone circular patch of sunlight to another across the vast floor of Penn station, awayfrom the photographer into the shadowy distance. A year later Stettner feltcompelled to return and create the series, but he found the photographs not“newsworthy” enough to publish. With time and distance, their significance has beenrecognized, and the series is now considered a major work of art.
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