Man in Times Square, New York
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."
Artwork Details
- Title: Man in Times Square, New York
- Artist: Louis Stettner (American, New York 1922–2016 Saint-Ouen, France)
- Date: 1954
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 34.4 x 23.1 cm (13 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.1055.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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