SAUL LEITER RETROSPECTIVE

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) has only recently become one of the greats pioneers of color photography. This can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Leiter long considered himself primarily a painter. After his Arriving in New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning before he began in the late 1940s to take black and white photographs. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt, he has found his motifs in the streets of New York, but at the same time was interested in abstraction. Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover photography by Leiter, showing it in the 1950s at two important exhibitions at MoMA in New York. At the time, color photography was considered as "poor quality art" intended only for advertising. As a result, Leiter worked primarily as a fashion photographer for magazines such as Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Nearly 40 years have passed before his extraordinary artistic color photography was rediscovered. This book, first published as part of the first major retrospective of Leiter's work in 2012, present for the first time, besides his first black and white and color images, his fashion photographs, his painted nudes, as well as his paintings and notebooks sketches. . "Saul Leiter shines as a retrospective book. It presents the photographer's work in the best possible way, with many examples of photographs and essays, all of which are very readable and informative. [...] Highley recommended. " (Joerg Colberg, Conscientious.com)