Man in Times Square, New York
Louis Stettner American
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Born in Brooklyn, Louis Stettner enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps at age eighteen and requested to be trained as a combat photographer. He served during World War II in New Guinea and the Philippines and after armistice was sent to Hiroshima, Japan. This formative experience would shape his life as a photographer: "It is hard to assess what taking battle pictures has meant to me as a photographer. I do know that I lived and fought together with my fellow countrymen—fishermen, industrial workers, storekeepers—whom I had only brushed up against in Times Square. . . . How they successfully fought against fascism has given me a faith in human beings that has never left me."
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