Stettner's pictures are a Paris of the unexpected. Catches of a precise moment, in short, hardly grasped that it has already passed. These are all these photos that we would have liked to take but that we could not stop. This couple of lovers with the head of umbrella, this shadow that plays with the facade of the building, that penetrating look of an unknown. Louis Stettner is the poet of everyday life. The public entertainer. The conjurer of the city. The insolent goal of this American who landed in Paris after the war in 1947 catches all the urban scenes that are played on the macadam of a capital barely liberated.
A Paris that he still continues today to pace, always in search of those moments suspended where, precisely, life is played. On the occasion of Paris Photo, discover this collector of the elusive at his antique dealer, Edward Klejman, stand 21, alley 1 at Serpette.