“A photograph should always have the last word. Surrounded by silence, it should by its presence dominate all those who look at it. Even the photographer should keep quiet. The picture is taken, their work is done.”
~ Louis Stettner
1922-2016
A simple table in a simple restaurant is far from being just another simple image. Louis imbues it with such feeling and heart that we almost feel that we are present with the two people sitting there even though it is empty of other human beings.
Louis was an urban poet seeing simple beauty everywhere. One of his lesser known "gems " but one with no less of an enormous emotional punch. I was so moved by this image when I discovered it by accident in his studio that I asked him to make me a signed print of it so many years ago. It has haunted me ever since
