It Don’t Mean a Thing

It Don’t Mean a Thing – This reprint edition (2nd printing of the 2017 edition)) is exactly the same as the 2017 limited edition, with the exception of an updated perfect binding and a cover that condenses the binding and obi (found in the original limited edition) into a single printed cover.

Gould Collection is a book series that brings together contemporary photographers and writers.

This Volume Two presents fifty-eight photographs by Saul Leiter with the text “It Don’t Mean a Thing” by Paul Auster. Saul Leiter’s black-and-white and color photographs from 1947 to 1970 – with many never-before-published images – are paired with Auster’s account of life events and chance encounters. Reflections on New York City, its urban rhythm, people and places, are an important part of both artists’ work, and provide a focal point for the book.

It Don’t Mean a Thing: Photographs by Saul Leiter with a Story by Paul Auster is a bilingual publication. Auster’s story, the artists’ biographies and related texts are printed in English and Japanese (with translation of the story by Motoyuki Shibata).