* Louis Faurer; Photographed Streets of New York

Louis Faurer, 84, a photographer who captured street images in New York in the 1950s. Born in Philadelphia to Polish immigrant parents, Faurer developed an interest in photography as a boy. As a young man, the often irascible Faurer studied commercial art, painted advertising signs and worked as a photographer’s assistant. From the late 1940s to the 1970s, he found steady work as a fashion photographer for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. His personal work, however, was in the streets photographing the grittiness, irony and humanity of urban life. His work was included in significant exhibitions including Edward Steichen’s “Family of Man” show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955. In the 1970s and early ‘80s, Faurer received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and taught at various universities including Yale. “He was a terribly underrated photographer,” the noted photographer Arnold Newman told the New York Times. “Many of us thought he was a wonderful photographer,” Newman added. “Somehow, he just wasn’t recognized.” On March 2 in New York City.