LOU STOUMEN (1917-1991) A portfolio entitled Forty Years. 1940-79; printed 1980-81. Complete with 20 dynamic photographs spanning the photographer's long career. Silver prints, the images measuring 13½x18 inches (34.3x45.7 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Stoumen's signature in ink on recto, and the portfolio title and edition notation 10/50 in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso; each enclosed in a folder with the printed title, extended caption, print number, and negative date. Folio-sized black metal box with a silver label; the colophon with Stoumen's signature and the edition notation 10/50 in ink, and an artist's statement; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50 PLUS 10 ARTIST'S PROOFS. The Witkin Gallery & G. Ray Hawkins Gallery.
I am a street photographer and have from boyhood obsessively photographed the people, places and light of everyday life. The ordinary has always seemed to me enough of a miracle. I try to learn enough art, compassion and laughter to stop time occasionally -- to manifest on paper a few ordinary miracles. --Lou Stoumen
Sailor & Girl, New York City, 1940 * Times Square in the Rail, New York City, 1940 * Black Cat Bar & Brothel, San Juan Puerto Rico, 1942 * Dying Girl, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942 * War & Peace, 1943 * Bomb Pin, Kunming, China, 1944 * Old Man, Boy Soldier, Chengtu, China, 1944 * The Taj Mahal from the Air, Agra, India, 1944 * The Day FDR Died, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1945 * Baby/Bed/Jesus, Los Angeles, California, 1950 * Young Woman, Brooklyn, NY, 1962 * The Lovers, Berkeley, California, 1969 * Adobe Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1977 * Black Horse, Black Dog, Salida, Colorado, 1978 * Fantasy Car, Sausalito, California, 1978 * 43rd Street off Broadway, New York City, 1978 * Street Woman, Times Square, 1979 * The Barber, Naolinco, Mexico, 1979 * The Butcher, Naolinco, Mexico, 1979 * Storm, Xalapa, Mexico, 1979
